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What I’d like to do in this chapter is to share with you my recollections from the earliest days of coronin research and then to provide an overview of the still-developing story of this fascinating family of proteins.
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de Hostos, E.L. (2008). A Brief History of the Coronin Family. In: Clemen, C.S., Eichinger, L., Rybakin, V. (eds) The Coronin Family of Proteins. Subcellular Biochemistry, vol 48. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09595-0_4
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