Melanosomes--dark organelles enlighten endosomal membrane transport.

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Published in Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol on October 01, 2007

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Graça Raposo1, Michael S Marks

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1: Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, Paris, F-75248 France. graca.raposo@curie.fr

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