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. 2012 Sep 27;55(9):826–833. doi: 10.1007/s11427-012-4371-2

A glimpse of enzymology within the idea of systems

ChuanPeng Liu 1,✉, DongJie Fan 2, Yi Shi 3, QiMing Zhou 4
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