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Materials and Methods

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All chemicals were obtained from the following companies: AppliChem (Darmstadt, DE), Biomol (Hamburg, DE), Fluka (Neu-Ulm, DE), Merck (Darmstadt, DE), Sigma-Aldrich (Steinheim, DE), Serva (Heidelberg, DE), Roth (Karlsruhe, DE) and VWR (Darmstadt, DE).

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Huber, E.M. (2013). Materials and Methods. In: Structural and Functional Characterization of the Immunoproteasome. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01556-9_3

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