Utilizing a Negative Enrichment Strategy to Profile Protein Methylation, Leveraging the Orthogonality of LysargiNase and Trypsin-2
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Bo Jiang
PROVIDER: PXD059698 | iProX | Sat Jan 11 00:00:00 GMT 2025
REPOSITORIES: iProX
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