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spellingShingle Giri, Kalyan, Ghosh, Utpal, Bhattacharyya, Nitai P, Basak, Soumen, FEBS Letters, Caspase 8 mediated apoptotic cell death induced by β‐sheet forming polyalanine peptides, Cell Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Structural Biology, Biophysics
title Caspase 8 mediated apoptotic cell death induced by β‐sheet forming polyalanine peptides
title_full Caspase 8 mediated apoptotic cell death induced by β‐sheet forming polyalanine peptides
title_fullStr Caspase 8 mediated apoptotic cell death induced by β‐sheet forming polyalanine peptides
title_full_unstemmed Caspase 8 mediated apoptotic cell death induced by β‐sheet forming polyalanine peptides
title_short Caspase 8 mediated apoptotic cell death induced by β‐sheet forming polyalanine peptides
title_sort caspase 8 mediated apoptotic cell death induced by β‐sheet forming polyalanine peptides
title_unstemmed Caspase 8 mediated apoptotic cell death induced by β‐sheet forming polyalanine peptides
topic Cell Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Structural Biology, Biophysics
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