DNA Poised for Release in Bacteriophage ø29
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DNA Poised for Release in Bacteriophage ø29
Jinghua Tang,1 Norman Olson,1 Paul J. Jardine,2 Shelley Grimes,2 Dwight L. Anderson,2,3,* and Timothy S. Baker1,4,* 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA 2Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences and Institute for Molecular Virology 3Department of Microbiology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA 4Division ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Structure
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0969-2126
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2008.02.024