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Interconversion and uptake of nucleotides, nucleosides, and purine bases by the marine bacterium MB22

M Foret, J Ahlers

    Journal of Bacteriology
    |May 1, 1982
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    marine bacterial metabolismnucleotide transportpurine base uptakebacterial transport systems

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