Cucumisin

Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 3254-3257

  Arima, Kazunari ^a   Uchikoba, Tetsuya ^a   Yonezawa, Hiroo ^a   Kaneda, Makoto ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84884840286     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-382219-2.00718-3     Document Type: Chapter

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