Vitamin B12 joins the club: A review of structural studies and implications for mechanisms of enzymatic reactions

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 125-132

  Chemaly, S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

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