Structure and function of the Smoothened extracellular domain in vertebrate Hedgehog signaling.

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Published in Elife on October 29, 2013

Authors

Sigrid Nachtergaele1, Daniel M Whalen, Laurel K Mydock, Zhonghua Zhao, Tomas Malinauskas, Kathiresan Krishnan, Philip W Ingham, Douglas F Covey, Christian Siebold, Rajat Rohatgi

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1: Department of Biochemistry , Stanford University School of Medicine , Stanford , United States.

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