Trends in Biochemical Sciences
Research UpdatePAAD – a new protein domain associated with apoptosis, cancer and autoimmune diseases
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We thank Dr Weizhong Li for the continuous development of the Saturated BLAST program. K.P. and A.G. were supported by NIH grant GM60049.
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