Post-transcriptional regulation: The dawn of PTB

Current Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1997, Pages

  Valcárcel, Juan ^a   Gebauer, Fátima ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

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EID: 0031282306     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(06)00361-7     Document Type: Article

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