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Abderrahman Hachani1, Luke P Allsopp1, Yewande Oduko1

  • 1From the MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
|May 6, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
Bacterial Cell EnvelopeBacterial GeneticsBacterial ToxinMicrobiologyProtein TranslocationPseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa)Type VI Secretion SystemVgrG

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