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DNA Nanotubes as a Versatile Tool to Study Semiflexible Polymers
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DNA tube structures controlled by a four-way-branched DNA connector
Masayuki Endo1, Nadrian C Seeman, Tetsuro Majima
1Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan. endo@sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|August 27, 2005
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