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Daniela Reimer1, Kimberly N Cowles, Anna Proschak

  • 1Merck Stiftungsprofessur für Molekulare Biotechnologie, Fachbereich Biowissenschaften, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main (Germany).

Chembiochem : a European Journal of Chemical Biology
|September 17, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
Xenorhabdusbiosynthesisinsect inducible genesnatural productspromoter trap strategyrhabdopeptides

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