Targeting Signals for Protein Import into Mitochondria and Other Subcellular Organelles

Advances in Molecular and Cell Biology

Volumn 17, Issue C, 1996, Pages 1-12

  Heijne, Gunnar von ^a  

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EID: 0013650306     PISSN: 15692558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-2558(09)60005-9     Document Type: Article

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