GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?
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Feb. 11, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
...that there are approximately 950 different human genes encoding GPCRs (Takeda et al., 2002).
G proteins...2002) Identification of G protein-coupled receptor genes from the human genome sequence. FEBS Letters 520... on Addgene.org
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