A cold-active heat-labile t-RNA modification GTPase from a psychrophilic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae (Lz4W)

Ashish Kumar Singh1, Sisinthy Shivaji

  • 1Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India.

Research in Microbiology
|December 1, 2009
PubMed

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