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Daria Illenberger1, Claudia Walliser, Bernd Nurnberg

  • 1Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, Ulm D-89081, Germany. daria.illenberger@medizin.uni-ulm.de

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
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