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DOI: 10.24075/brsmu.2016-01-11

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Two HMG domains of yeast mitochondrial protein Abf2p have different affinity to DNA

Kurashenko AV1, Samoilova EO1, Balaeva MV1, Chicherin IV1, Petrov DYu2, Kamenski P1, Levitskii SA1
About authors

1 Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology,
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

2 Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Fundamental Medicine,
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Peter Kamenski
Leninskie gory, d. 1, str. 12, Moscow, Russia, 119991; moc.liamg@iksnemak.rtoip

About paper

Funding: this study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 14-04-31554 mol_a).

Received: 2015-09-29 Accepted: 2015-12-09 Published online: 2017-01-05
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