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Bo Liu1, Prasanna G Alluri, Peng Yu

  • 1Departments of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology and Center for Biomedical Inventions, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.

まとめ

研究者らは,ヒト細胞の強力な転写共同活性化剤として作用するペプトイド分子を発見した. これらの新しい化合物は,遺伝子発現を大幅に高め,分子生物学の研究のための新しいツールを提供しています.

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