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Functional evidence for in vitro microtubule severing by the plant katanin homologue

Virginie Stoppin-Mellet1, Jérémie Gaillard, Marylin Vantard

  • 1Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale UMR 5019 CNRS/CEA/Université Joseph Fourier, 17 rue des martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble, cedex 9, France. vstoppinmellet@cea.fr

The Biochemical Journal
|May 22, 2002
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