Globular tail of myosin-V is bound to vamp/synaptobrevin

A Ohyama1, Y Komiya, M Igarashi

  • 1Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimatology, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan.

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