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Masahiro Okada1, Yuta Nakamura2, Shunsuke Hayashi2

  • 1Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
|August 16, 2015
PubMed

Keywords:
Bacillus subtilisNattoPosttranslational modificationQuorum sensing

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