Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 17.6, Problem 1MI
What special considerations are necessary if one is constructing a translational fusion of a protein known to be exported?
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