Rapid mutagenesis and purification of phage RNA polymerases

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 142-151

  He, Biao ^a   Rong, Mingqing ^a   Lyakhov, Dmitry ^a   Gartenstein, Heidi ^a   Diaz, George ^a   Castagna, Ray ^a   McAllister, William T ^a   Durbin, Russell K ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 0031076279     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/prep.1996.0663     Document Type: Article

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