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Adrian Olivares*, Hema Chandra Kotamarthi*, Benjamin Stein, Robert Sauer, Tania Baker, “ Effect of directional pulling on mechanical protein degradation by ATP-dependent proteolytic machines”, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2017, Vol 114, E6306-E6313. * Equal Contribution. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707794114

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