Purification and characterization of Manduca sexta prophenoloxidase-activating proteinase-1, an enzyme involved in insect immune responses
- 1 February 2005
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Protein Expression and Purification
- Vol. 39 (2) , 261-268
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pep.2004.10.011
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