Lessons in stability from thermophilic proteins.

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Published in Protein Sci on July 01, 2006

Authors

Abbas Razvi1, J Martin Scholtz

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1: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843-1114, USA.

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