Macromolecular crowding: an important but neglected aspect of the intracellular environment.

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  Current Opinion in Structural Biology

• Publication date

  2001-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, Mathematics

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  DOI 10.1016/S0959-440X(00)00172-XPMID 11179900
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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