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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Catalytic improvement and structural analysis of atrazine chlorohydrolase by site-saturation mutagenesis

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Pages 1336-1343 | Received 27 Nov 2015, Accepted 13 Feb 2016, Published online: 24 Mar 2016

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