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Pulmonary Cell NewsResearchers showed that glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) was readily palmitoylated in vitro and in vivo; specifically, cysteine-291 was the unique palmitoylated residue in GFAP.
[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]
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