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Guangyu Wu1, Jason E Davis1, Maoxiang Zhang1

  • 1Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, USA.

Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science
|June 10, 2015
PubMed

Keywords:
Cell surface transport, Export motifER exportExport traffickingG protein-coupled receptorsIntracellular traffickingPost-Golgi transportalpha2-adrenergic receptors

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