Optimizing the stability of single-chain proteins by linker length and composition mutagenesis.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on May 26, 1998

Authors

C R Robinson1, R T Sauer

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1: Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139, USA.

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