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Cell Surface Receptor Identification Using Genome-Scale CRISPR/Cas9 Genetic Screens
Published on: June 6, 2020
A negative survival pressure selection system enables GPCR antagonist screening
Tao Xu1,2, Qinxin Sun1,2, Shuhao Zhang1,2
1State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Cell Discovery
|May 13, 2026
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