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Xin Zhang1, Shaohua Fan1, Lihui Zhang2

  • 1Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering, Ministry of Education, Institute of Biotechnology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China.

FEBS Letters
|February 4, 2020
PubMed

Keywords:
NLSRASMCsglucagon-like peptide 1 receptornuclear importnuclear localizationphosphorylation

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