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Application of Stopped-flow Kinetics Methods to Investigate the Mechanism of Action of a DNA Repair Protein
Published on: March 31, 2010
Determination of the impact of DNA damage sites on DNA duplex stability by a competitive mobility-shift assay
M S Chen1, A Laszlo, J Roti Roti
1Section of Cancer Biology, Radiation Oncology Center, MIR, Washington University School of Medicine, 4511 Forest Park Boulevard, Suite 411, St. Louis, Missouri 63018, USA. MINGSHUN@RADONC.WUSTL.EDU
Analytical Biochemistry
|October 25, 2001
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