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Review Articles

The leucine-responsive regulatory proteins/feast-famine regulatory proteins: an ancient and complex class of transcriptional regulators in bacteria and archaea

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Pages 373-400 | Received 16 Oct 2020, Accepted 29 Apr 2021, Published online: 20 Jun 2021

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