Competition between SsrA tagging and translational termination at weak stop codons in Escherichia coli
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Microbiology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0950-382X,1365-2958
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03045.x