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Cell-free extract systems and the cytoskeleton: preparation of biochemical experiments for transmission electron

Margaret Coughlin1, William M Brieher, Ryoma Ohi

  • 1Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|July 28, 2007
PubMed

Keywords:
cell-free systemscytoskeletonelectron microscopybiochemical experiments

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