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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (AI63419); the Arthritis National Research Foundation; the National Multiple Sclerosis Society; and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. R.H.N. was supported by National Institutes of Health Immunology Research Training Grant T32 AI-060573.

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  1. Institute for Immunology and Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, 3215 McGaugh Hall, Irvine, CA, 92697-3900, USA

    Jeniffer B. Hernandez, Ryan H. Newton, Brian M. Weist & Craig M. Walsh

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Hernandez, J.B., Newton, R.H., Weist, B.M., Walsh, C.M. (2018). DRAK2. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_85

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