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Staffan Johansson, Gunbjørg Svineng*, Krister Wennerberg*, Annika Armulik, Lars Lohikangas
Department of Medical and Physiological Chemistry, The Biomedical Center, Box 575, S-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
Received 2/20/97; Accepted 2/27/97; On-line 3/1/97
*GS and KW have made equally important and major contributions to this article.
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