Cloning and characterization of Leishmania tarentolae adenine phosphoribosyltransferase.
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a Department of Molecular, Cell and De6elopmental Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1662, USA b Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1662, USA c Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1662, USA
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Molecular and biochemical parasitology
دوره 95 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1998