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The ER protein folding sensor UDP-glucose glycoprotein-glucosyltransferase modifies substrates distant to local

Sean C Taylor1, Andrew D Ferguson, John J M Bergeron

  • 1Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, 3655 Boulevard Sir William Osler, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3G 1Y6.

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
|January 20, 2004
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