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. 1993 Dec 1;90(23):10893–10895. doi: 10.1073/pnas.90.23.10893

Proteins, radicals, isotopes, and mutants in photosynthetic oxygen evolution.

G T Babcock 1
PMCID: PMC47885  PMID: 8248188

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