Engineering orthogonal signaling pathways reveals the sparse distribtion of protein protein interactions in sequence space
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ORGANISM(S): Escherichia coli str. K-12 substr. MG1655
PROVIDER: GSE120789 | GEO | 2019/08/05
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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