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Kataoka, J., Habuka, N., Miyano, M. et al. Nucleotide sequence of cDNA encoding α-luffin, a ribosome-inactivating protein from Luffa cylindrica . Plant Mol Biol 18, 1199–1202 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00047727
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