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Pull-down of Calmodulin-binding Proteins
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Published on: January 23, 2012

Identification of a 52-kD calmodulin-binding protein associated with the mitotic spindle apparatus in mammalian cells

R C Brady, F Cabral, J R Dedman

    The Journal of Cell Biology
    |November 1, 1986
    PubMed

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