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Intertwined translational regulations set uneven stoichiometry of chloroplast ATP synthase subunits

Dominique Drapier1, Blandine Rimbault, Olivier Vallon

  • 1UMR 7141 CNRS/UPMC, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France.

The EMBO Journal
|July 31, 2007
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