Direct control of exocytosis by receptor-mediated activation of the heterotrimeric GTPases Gi and G(o) or by the expression of their active G alpha subunits.

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Published in EMBO J on August 01, 1995

Authors

J Lang1, I Nishimoto, T Okamoto, R Regazzi, C Kiraly, U Weller, C B Wollheim

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1: Division de Biochimie Clinique, Université de Genève, Switzerland.

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