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Sensing and protecting against superoxide stress in Escherichia coli – how many ways are there to trigger soxRS response?

D. TouatiLaboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Réponses Adaptatives, Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS-Universités Paris 6 and Paris 7, Paris, France
Pages 287-293 | Published online: 19 Jul 2013

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