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Original Articles

Protein Traffic for Secretion and Related Machinery of Bacillus subtilis

Kunio YAMANEInstitute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba
,
Keigo BUNAIInstitute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba
&
Hiroshi KAKESHITAInstitute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Pages 2007-2023 | Published online: 22 May 2014

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