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Design of an emission ratiometric biosensor from MerR family proteins: a sensitive and selective sensor for Hg2+

Seraphine V Wegner1, Ayse Okesli, Peng Chen

  • 1Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, 5735 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637.

Journal of the American Chemical Society
|March 6, 2007
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