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Research Articles

Comprehensive analysis of the numbers, lengths and amino acid compositions of transmembrane helices in prokaryotic, eukaryotic and viral integral membrane proteins of high-resolution structure

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Pages 443-464 | Received 14 Aug 2016, Accepted 16 Jan 2017, Published online: 15 Feb 2017

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