Cancer Malignancy Is Correlated with Upregulation of PCYT2-Mediated Glycerol Phosphate Modification of alpha-Dystroglycan
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INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Fusion Lumos
ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (ncbitaxon:9606)
SUBMITTER: 
Kay-Hooi Khoo
PROVIDER: MSV000089635 | MassIVE | Sun Jun 12 18:30:00 BST 2022
REPOSITORIES: MassIVE
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