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Original Articles

Altering the Substrate Specificity of Glutamate Dehydrogenase from Bacillus subtilis by Site-Directed Mutagenesis

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Pages 1802-1805 | Received 18 Apr 2005, Accepted 31 May 2005, Published online: 22 May 2014

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