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Single-Molecule Fluorescence Visualization of DNA Polymerase Dynamics at G-Quadruplexes
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Small-molecule binding to the nonquadruplex form of the human telomeric sequence
Yuki Goto1, Shinya Hagihara, Masaki Hagihara
1Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan.
Chembiochem : a European Journal of Chemical Biology
|March 30, 2007
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