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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Jay S. Siegel and John Robin-
son for their continuous support. The work was funded by the
University of Zürich (Forschungskredit to H. J. J.) and the Swiss
National Science Foundation (Professorship PP00P2_157607 to
H. J. J.). Research in the Bennett laboratory at CeMM is sup-
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Keywords: chemoselectivity · isotopic labeling · nucleotides ·
phosphorylation · polyanions
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