Cloning of a phosphatidic acid-preferring phospholipase A1 from bovine testis

H N Higgs1, M H Han, G E Johnson

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-7370, USA.

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