DNA topology: Feeling the pulse of a topoisomerases

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 14, 2000, Pages

  Stasiak, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0034644125     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00585-6     Document Type: Review

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