Research Letters in Biochemistry
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 685342, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/685342
Research Letter

Dephosphorylation of Centrins by Protein Phosphatase 2C α and β

Marie-Christin Thissen,1 Josef Krieglstein,1 Uwe Wolfrum,2 and Susanne Klumpp1

1Institut für Pharmazeutische und Medizinische Chemie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Hittorfstr. 58-62, D-48149 Münster, Germany
2Institut für Zoologie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Johannes-von-Müllerweg 6, D-55099 Mainz, Germany

Received 26 March 2009; Accepted 26 May 2009

Academic Editor: George S. Baillie

Copyright © 2009 Marie-Christin Thissen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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