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Dimeric Sfh3 has structural changes in its binding pocket that are associated with a dimer-monomer state

Ye Yuan1, Wei Zhao, Xiao Wang

  • 1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People's Republic of China.

Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Biological Crystallography
|March 23, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
Saccharomyces cerevisiaeSfh3dimer–monomer state changehomodimer

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