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  1. Bio-Active Compounds Discovery Research Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 2-1, Hirosawa,, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan

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Watanabe, N. (2018). WEE1. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_101526

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