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Acknowledgments

We regret the large number of original articles that were left out due to space constraints. Dr. Vicente-Manzanares would like to thank Prof. Robert S. Adelstein, Dr. Mary Anne Conti and Dr. Xuefei Ma for critical reading of the manuscript and their advice, help and warm friendship over the years. This work was funded by grant SAF2014-54705-R from MINECO. Miguel Vicente-Manzanares is a Ramon y Cajal Assistant Professor (RYC2010-06094).

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    Alba Juanes-García, Clara Llorente-González & Miguel Vicente-Manzanares

  2. Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer-CSIC, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007, Salamanca, Spain

    Clara Llorente-González & Miguel Vicente-Manzanares

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Juanes-García, A., Llorente-González, C., Vicente-Manzanares, M. (2018). Nonmuscle Myosin II. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_101734

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