string <- ' " "KPNA2" "UBE2C" "CENPF" ## [4] "HMGB2"'
regmatches(string, gregexpr('(?<=")\\w+(?=")', string, perl=TRUE))[[1]]
## => [1] "KPNA2" "UBE2C" "CENPF" "HMGB2"
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