Global Awakening of Cryptic Biosynthetic Gene Clusters inBurkholderia thailandensis
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High-throughput platform for the discovery of elicitors of silent bacterial gene clusters.
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عنوان ژورنال: ACS Chemical Biology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1554-8929,1554-8937
DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00681