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Single-Molecule Imaging of EWS-FLI1 Condensates Assembling on DNA
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Transcription factories: genome organization and gene regulation
Argyris Papantonis1, Peter R Cook
1Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford , South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RE, United Kingdom.
Chemical Reviews
|April 20, 2013
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