Parkinson's disease-associated receptor GPR37 is an ER chaperone for LRP6

Birgit S Berger1, Sergio P Acebron2, Jessica Herbst1

  • 1Division of Molecular Embryology, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.

EMBO Reports
|March 26, 2017
PubMed

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