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A G-quadruplex DNA-affinity Approach for Purification of Enzymatically Active G4 Resolvase1
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A human nuclease specific for G4 DNA

H Sun1, A Yabuki, N Maizels

  • 1Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|October 25, 2001
PubMed

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