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Further Reading

Kellner R., Lottspeich F., and Meyer H.E., eds. 1994. Microcharacterization of proteins. VCH, Weinheim, Germany.

Matsudaira P., ed. 1993. A practical guide to protein and peptide purification for microsequencing, 2nd edition, Academic Press, San Diego, California.