Mucus supramolecular topology: an elusive riddle

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Pedro Verdugo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012.

. 2012 Oct 30;109(44):E2956; author reply E2957.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1211117109. Epub 2012 Sep 17.

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Calcium and pH-dependent packing and release of the gel-forming MUC2 mucin.
Ambort D, Johansson ME, Gustafsson JK, Nilsson HE, Ermund A, Johansson BR, Koeck PJ, Hebert H, Hansson GC. Ambort D, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Apr 10;109(15):5645-50. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1120269109. Epub 2012 Mar 26. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012. PMID: 22451922 Free PMC article.

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