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A Photorhabdus natural product inhibits insect juvenile hormone epoxide hydrolase

Friederike I Nollmann1, Antje K Heinrich, Alexander O Brachmann

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

Chembiochem : a European Journal of Chemical Biology
|February 26, 2015
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Photorhabdusbiosynthesisentomopathogenic bacteriajuvenile hormone epoxide hydrolase inhibitornatural products

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