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Katalin Tóth1, Vera Böhm, Carolin Sellmann

  • 1Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Division Biophysics of Macromolecules, Heidelberg, D-69120, Germany.

Cytometry. Part a : the Journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology
|July 12, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
chromatin structureresonance energy transfersalt destabilizationsingle molecule spectroscopy

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