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Chapter 12 - Metabolic regulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2019

Byung Hong Kim  and
Geoffrey Michael Gadd
Byung Hong Kim
Affiliation:
Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul
Geoffrey Michael Gadd
Affiliation:
University of Dundee
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Prokaryotic Metabolism and Physiology , pp. 372 - 445
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