An anomalous dissociation of protonated cluster ions of DNA guanine-cytosine base-pair
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The deprotonated guanine-cytosine base pair.
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عنوان ژورنال: Mass Spectrometry Letters
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2233-4203
DOI: 10.5478/msl.2011.2.3.073