Sequence of the initiation factor IF2 gene: unusual protein features and homologies with elongation factors.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on December 01, 1984

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C Sacerdot, P Dessen, J W Hershey, J A Plumbridge, M Grunberg-Manago

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