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Selectivity in the interaction of various DNA sequences with H1 histone

F M Hendrickson1, R D Cole

  • 1Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Stanley/Donner Administrative Services Unit, University of California, Berkeley 94720.

Biochemistry
|March 15, 1994
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