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Single-Molecule Measurement of Protein Interaction Dynamics Within Biomolecular Condensates
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A statistical thermodynamic model of the protein ensemble
Vincent J Hilser1, Bertrand García-Moreno E, Terrence G Oas
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-1068, USA. vjhilser@utmb.edu
Chemical Reviews
|May 11, 2006
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