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Chemical specificity of nucleic acids and mechanism of their enzymatic degradation

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This article is based on a series of lectures given before the Chemical Societies of Zürich and Basle (June 29th and 30th, 1949), the Société de chimie biologique at Paris, and the Universities of Uppsala, Stockholm, and Milan.

The author wishes to thank theJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for making possible his stay in Europe. The experimental work has been supported by a research grant from theUnited States Public Health Service.

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Chargaff, E. Chemical specificity of nucleic acids and mechanism of their enzymatic degradation. Experientia 6, 201–209 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02173653

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