Recent Advances in Fungal Hydrophobin Towards Using in Industry

The Protein Journal - Tập 34 Số 4 - Trang 243-255 - 2015
Mohammadreza Khalesi1,2, Kurt Gebruers1, Guy Derdelinckx1
1Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems (M2S), KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
2Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

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