Ribulokinase and Transcriptional Regulation of Arabinose 1 Metabolism in Clostridium acetobutylicum
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* Corresponding authors. Mailing address: Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai 16 Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 300 Fenglin Road, Shanghai 17 200032, China. Phone: 86-21-54924152. Fax: 86-21-54924015. E-mail: [email protected]. 18 Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, 10901 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 19 92037. Phone: 1-858-6463100 ext.3082. Fax: 1-858-7955249. E-mail: 20 [email protected] 21 22 Copyright © 2011, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. J. Bacteriol. doi:10.1128/JB.06241-11 JB Accepts, published online ahead of print on 22 December 2011
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