The crystal structure of PD1, a Haemophilus surface fibril domain

Jack Wright1, Maren Thomsen1, Robert Kolodziejczyk1

  • 1Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Science, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England.

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