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Fol. Biol. 2011, 57, 3-11

https://doi.org/10.14712/fb2011057010003

A Fraction of MCM 2 Proteins Remain Associated with Replication Foci During a Major Part of S Phase

M. Mašata1,2, P. Juda1, O. Raška3, M. C. Cardoso2,4, Ivan Raška1

1Charles University in Prague, First Faculty of Medicine, and Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v. v. i, Prague, Czech Republic
2Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
3Charles University in Prague, Third Faculty of Medicine, Department of Normal, Pathological and Clinical Physiology, Prague, Czech Republic
4Department of Biology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Received November 2010
Accepted November 2010

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