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Monitoring Kinase and Phosphatase Activities Through the Cell Cycle by Ratiometric FRET
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Published on: January 27, 2012

Activity of thymidine kinase during the cell cycle in Tetrahymena pyriformis

P G Young, S Corff, S Yuyama

    Cytobios
    |January 1, 1977
    PubMed

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