Discoveries in bacterial nucleotide metabolism.

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Published in J Biol Chem on October 23, 2008

Authors

Robert L Switzer1

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1: Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. rswitzer@illinois.edu

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