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. 2021 Oct;22(10):362-363.
doi: 10.1111/tra.12810. Epub 2021 Aug 17.

RNA, a new member in the glycan-club that gets exposed at the cell surface

Eric Chevet  1   2 , Maria Antonietta De Matteis  3   4 , Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen  5 , Hesso Farhan  6
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RNA, a new member in the glycan-club that gets exposed at the cell surface

Eric Chevet et al. Traffic. 2021 Oct.
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Abstract

In this article we discuss implications of the recent discovery of glycoRNAs found to be present at the cell surface of mammalian cells which was reported by Flynn et al. Cell 2021.

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