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Research Article

Purification and characterization of a Cys-Gly hydrolase from the gastropod mollusk, Patella caerulea

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Pages 1560-1565 | Received 25 Nov 2015, Accepted 22 Feb 2016, Published online: 22 Mar 2016

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