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  4. Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Health Science C, San Antonio, Texas, USA

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McHenry, C.S. (2014). Bacterial DNA Replicases. In: Wells, R., Bond, J., Klinman, J., Masters, B., Bell, E. (eds) Molecular Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6436-5_54-2

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