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    Petra Keil, Jens Schloßmann & Nikolaus Pfanner

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Keil, P., Schloßmann, J. & Pfanner, N. Targeting and translocation of mitochondrial precursor proteins. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 61, 135–142 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00580621

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