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A Mukherjee1, K Dai, J Lutkenhaus

  • 1Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City 66103.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|February 1, 1993
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