GPI-anchored proteins: Biophysical behaviour and cleavage by PI-specific phospholipases

GPI Membrane Anchors-The Much Needed Link: A Biological, Structural, Physical and Chemical Look at Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-Anchored Proteins and Their Influences and Potential Applications in Biotechnology and Biomedicine

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 34-52

  Sharom, Frances J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.2174/978160805123611001010034     Document Type: Chapter

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