Transcription Attenuation: Once Viewed As a Novel Regulatory Strategy

Overview

Journal J Bacteriol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1999 Dec 30

PMID 10613855

Citations 57

Authors

C Yanofsky

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