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Erin E Cutts1, Alessandro Vannini1,2

  • 1Division of Structural Biology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London SW7 3RP, U.K.

Biochemical Society Transactions
|October 2, 2020
PubMed

Keywords:
DNA bindingSMCchromosomescondensinsingle-moleculestructural biology

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