Variable Regions of Heavy and Light Polypeptide Chains of the Same GammaG-immunoglobulin Molecule

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Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 1968 Sep 1

PMID 4177258

Citations 9

Authors

P D Gottlieb

B A Cunningham

M J Waxdal

W H Konigsberg

G M Edelman

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