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Virginie Coustou1, Marc Biran, Sébastien Besteiro

  • 1Laboratoire de Génomique Fonctionnelle des Trypanosomatides, UMR-5162 CNRS and Résonance Magnétique des Systèmes Biologiques, UMR-5536 CNRS, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, 146 rue Léo Saignat, 33076 Bordeaux, France.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
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