Nature research paper: Molecular sensing of mechano- and ligand-dependent adhesion GPCR dissociation
This work was supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to N.S. and T.L. through FOR2149, project numbers 265903901 and 265996823 and through CRC 1423, project number 421152132 ; and by a junior research grant from the Faculty of Medicine, Leipzig University, to N.S. We thank C. Klämbt, R. Kopan, D. Montell, N. Perrimon, M. Rossner, R. Schuh, G. Struhl and W. Hütteroth for sharing materials and protocols; M. Ueffing for help with MS analyses; T.
Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry, Division of General Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany Nicole Scholz, Anne-Kristin Dahse, Marguerite Kemkemer, Anne Bormann, Genevieve M. Auger, Fernando Vieira Contreras, Lucia F. Ernst, Hauke Staake, Marek B. Körner, Max Buhlan, Amelie Meyer-Mölck, Yin Kwan Chung, Beatriz Blanco-Redondo, Dmitrij Ljaschenko, Marina Bigl & Tobias Langenhan
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