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The Application of Open Searching-based Approaches for the Identification of Acinetobacter baumannii O-linked Glycopeptides
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Glycans housed by a bacteriophage enable rapid identification of glycan recognition patterns
Theam Soon Lim1, Karli Montague-Cardoso2
1Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. theamsoon@usm.my.
Communications Biology
|August 13, 2021
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