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Karen Y Y Fung1, Lu Dai2, William S Trimble3

  • 1Cell Biology Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology
|April 15, 2014
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Keywords:
Cytoskeletal filamentsDiffusion barrierGTPaseMolecular scaffoldsPIP2Polymerization

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