Stepping between membrane microdomains

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Thomas J McIntosh. Biophys J. 2015.

. 2015 Feb 17;108(4):783-784.

doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.12.039.

¹ Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. Electronic address: t.mcintosh@cellbio.duke.edu.

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