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Communicated by Dieter Söll, Yale University, New Haven, CT (received for review December 3, 2001)
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- Received December 3, 2001
- Accepted December 14, 2001
- Published April 2, 2002.
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- Alexei I. Slesarev*†‡,
- Katja V. Mezhevaya*,
- Kira S. Makarova§,
- Nikolai N. Polushin*,
- Olga V. Shcherbinina*,
- Vera V. Shakhova*,
- Galina I. Belova‡,
- L. Aravind§,
- Darren A. Natale§,
- Igor B. Rogozin§,
- Roman L. Tatusov§,
- Yuri I. Wolf§,
- Karl O. Stetter¶,
- Andrei G. Malykh*,
- Eugene V. Koonin§, and
- Sergei A. Kozyavkin*
- *Fidelity Systems, Gaithersburg, MD 20879: §National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894; ‡M. M. Shemyakin and Yu. A. Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117871, Russia; and ¶Department of Microbiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, D-93053, Germany
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Communicated by Dieter Söll, Yale University, New Haven, CT (received for review December 3, 2001)
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