Actin: Structure, function and disease

Actin: Structure, Functions, and Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 61-96

  Cleuren, Yamila Torres ^a   Boonstra, Johannes ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Biology ^*  (Netherlands)

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