The first successful crystallization of a prokaryotic extremely thermophilic outer surface layer glycoprotein

Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie

Volumn 214, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 427-429

  Evrard, Ch ^a   Declercq, J P ^a   Debaerdemaeker, T ^b   Konig H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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