Biochemical and genetic characterization of a competence pheromone from B. subtilis

Cell - Tập 77 Số 2 - Trang 207-216 - 1994
Roy David Magnuson1, John M. Solomon, Alan D. Grossman
1Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.

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