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The crystal structure of fibroblast growth factor 18 (FGF18)

  • Alan Brown ,
  • Lucy E. Adam ,
  • Tom L. Blundell
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  • Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK

Published date: 25 Jun 2014

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2014 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Alan Brown , Lucy E. Adam , Tom L. Blundell . The crystal structure of fibroblast growth factor 18 (FGF18)[J]. Protein & Cell, 2014 , 5(5) : 343 -347 . DOI: 10.1007/s13238-014-0033-4

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