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Purification of Chitinolytic Protein from Rehmannia glutinosa Showing N-terminal Amino Acid Sequence Similarity to Thaumatin-Like Proteins

Cheol-Ho PANDepartment of Agricultural Chemistry and Research Center for New Bio-Materials in Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University
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Eun-A LEEDepartment of Agricultural Chemistry and Research Center for New Bio-Materials in Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University
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Young-Am CHAEDepartment of Agricultural Chemistry and Research Center for New Bio-Materials in Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University
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Su-Il KIMDepartment of Agricultural Chemistry and Research Center for New Bio-Materials in Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University
Pages 1138-1140 | Received 12 Jan 1999, Accepted 18 Feb 1999, Published online: 22 May 2014

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