Binding kinetics of the toroid-shaped PCNA to DNA strands on a 27 MHz quartz crystal microbalance.

Chemphyschem

Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuda, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan.

Published: May 2002

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