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Jin Woo Bok1, Yi-Ming Chiang, Edyta Szewczyk

  • 1Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology (formerly Department of Plant Pathology), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Nature Chemical Biology
|May 19, 2009
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