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The molecular architecture of the eukaryotic chaperonin TRiC/CCT

Alexander Leitner1, Lukasz A Joachimiak, Andreas Bracher

  • 1Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.

Structure (London, England : 1993)
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