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New insights into the helical structure of 30-nm chromatin fibers

  • Ping Chen ,
  • Ping Zhu ,
  • Guohong Li
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  • National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

Published date: 31 Jul 2014

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Ping Chen , Ping Zhu , Guohong Li . New insights into the helical structure of 30-nm chromatin fibers[J]. Protein & Cell, 2014 , 5(7) : 489 -491 . DOI: 10.1007/s13238-014-0080-x

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