Native Escherichia coli HU protein is a heterotypic dimer

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• Publication year

  1979

• Venue

  FEBS Letters

• Publication date

  1979-10-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1016/0014-5793(79)80518-9PMID 227733
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