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Serine/threonine protein kinases of bacteria are potential targets for regulation of human microbiota composition

About authors

1 Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of RAS, Moscow

2 Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Biological and Medical Physics,
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Dolgoprudny

Correspondence should be addressed: Natalia Zakharevich
ul. Gubkina, d. 3, Moscow, Russia, 119991; ur.xednay@hciverahkaz

About paper

All authors' contribution to this work is equal: selection and analysis of literature, planning of the manuscript's structure, data interpretation, drafting of the manuscript, editing.

Received: 2017-03-28 Accepted: 2017-04-07 Published online: 2017-05-31
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