Temperature-assisted limited proteolysis-coupled mass spectrometry approach to identify drug targets and binding sites in complex proteomes
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ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens
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Wen Gao
PROVIDER: PXD051811 | iProX | Fri Apr 26 00:00:00 BST 2024
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