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Applying an Inducible Expression System to Study Interference of Bacterial Virulence Factors with Intracellular Signaling
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WITHDRAWN: Characterisation of the Intact Sensor Kinase VicK from Enterococcus faecalis: Direct Evidence for YycH as
Victor Blessie1, Amy Hayward, Nicholas G Rutherford
1Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
Journal of Molecular Biology
|May 15, 2007
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