Springs and zippers: Coiled coils in SNARE-mediated membrane fusion

Structure

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1487-1491

  Harbury, Pehr A B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032534758     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(98)00147-6     Document Type: Article

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