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Artificial RNA Polymerase II Elongation Complexes for Dissecting Co-transcriptional RNA Processing Events
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James J Foti1, Graham C Walker
1Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Cell
|April 21, 2010
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