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  1. Gwangju Center, Korea Basic Science Institute, Gwangju, 61186, Korea

    Seongsoo Lee

  2. BioNanotechnology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Biotechnology and Bioscience, Daejeon, 34141, Korea

    Kun-Sun Lee

  3. Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Sungun Huh & Bingwei Lu

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    Sangdun Choi

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Lee, S., Lee, KS., Huh, S., Lu, B. (2018). Miro (Mitochondrial Rho). In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_101740

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