SNAREs define targeting specificity of trafficking vesicles by combinatorial interaction with tethering factors

Seiichi Koike1, Reinhard Jahn2

  • 1Department of Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, 37077, Germany.

Nature Communications
|April 10, 2019
PubMed

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