Organelle division: Self-assembling GTPases caught in the middle

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2000, Pages

  Margolin, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 0034192445     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00458-9     Document Type: Review

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