Strategies to identify modified ribosomally synthesized antimicrobials

Antimicrobial Drug Discovery: Emerging Strategies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 147-165

  Marsh, Alan J ^a   Hill, Colin ^b   Paul Ross, R ^a   Cotter, Paul D ^a  

^a TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

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