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The commercial production of chemicals using pathway engineering

G Chotani1, T Dodge, A Hsu

  • 1Genencor International, 925 Page Mill Road, 94304, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
|January 11, 2001
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