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Hitching a ride to the top: peroxisomes fuel cilium with cholesterol

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31771568, 32021003 and 91954203), and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2016YFA0500100).

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Luo, J., Liu, YB. & Song, BL. Hitching a ride to the top: peroxisomes fuel cilium with cholesterol. Sci. China Life Sci. 64, 478–481 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-020-1866-8

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