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Say it with proteins: an alphabet of crystal structures

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Figure 1: A protein alphabet.

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Funding was provided by Worcester College Oxford. I thank E. Lowe (University of Oxford) for the diffraction image.

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    Mark Howarth

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Howarth, M. Say it with proteins: an alphabet of crystal structures. Nat Struct Mol Biol 22, 349 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.3011

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