Dependence of the topside ion composition on the solar flux and its implication to iri model

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 197-200

  Iwamoto, I ^a   Sagawa, E ^a   Watanabe, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arginase monomer; Mn2+ cofactor; Quaternary structure; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040141642     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00918-7     Document Type: Article

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