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Research Article

Probing the contacts of a low-affinity substrate with a membrane-embedded transport protein using 1H-13C cross-polarisation magic-angle spinning solid-state NMR

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Pages 129-137 | Received 31 Mar 2012, Accepted 13 Oct 2012, Published online: 23 Nov 2012

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