Untwist and shout: a heavy metal-responsive transcriptional regulator
Open Access
- 1 May 1992
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 174 (10) , 3097-3101
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.174.10.3097-3101.1992
Abstract
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