The use of natural and unnatural amino acid substrates to define the substrate specificity differences of Escherichia coli aspartate and tyrosine aminotransferases.

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Published in Protein Sci on September 01, 1995

Authors

J J Onuffer1, B T Ton, I Klement, J F Kirsch

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1: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA.

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