Active Site Contribution to Specificity of the Aspartic Proteases Plasmepsins I and II
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- 1 October 2002
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier
- Vol. 277 (43) , 41009-41013
- https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m204852200
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