Heavy-metal-binding proteins

Nutraceutical Proteins and Peptides in Health and Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 69-80

  Kovacs Nolan, Jennifer ^a   Mine, Yoshinori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

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