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  1. Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis, Athens, Greece

    Anezia Kourkoulou & George Diallinas

  2. Department of Microbiology, London, UK

    Claudio Scazzocchio

  3. Laboratory of Biological Chemistry, Department of Medicine, University of Ioannina School of Health Sciences, Ioannina, Greece

    Stathis Frillingos

  4. Department of Pharmacology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis, Athens, Greece

    Emmanuel Mikros

  5. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Bernadette Byrne

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Kourkoulou, A., Scazzocchio, C., Frillingos, S., Mikros, E., Byrne, B., Diallinas, G. (2018). Nucleobase-Ascorbate-Transporter (NAT) Family. In: Roberts, G., Watts, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35943-9_10090-1

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35943-9_10090-2

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