Hydrophobins—Unique Fungal Proteins
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1 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 872, Paris, France, 2 Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6, UMR S 872, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Equipe 16-Immunopathology & Therapeutic Immunointervention, Paris, France, 3 Université Paris Descartes, UMR S 872, Paris, France, 4 Institut Pasteur, Unité des Aspergillus, Paris, France, 5 Institut Pasteur, Unité de RMN des Biomolécules, Paris, France, 6 CNRS UMR 3528, Paris, France, 7 University of Sydney, Discipline of Pharmacology, New South Wales, Australia
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