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Spontaneous Formation and Rearrangement of Artificial Lipid Nanotube Networks as a Bottom-Up Model for Endoplasmic Reticulum
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Assembly of the endoplasmic reticulum phospholipid bilayer: the phosphatidylcholine transporter

W R Bishop, R M Bell

    Cell
    |August 1, 1985
    PubMed

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