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Structure of unliganded membrane-proximal domains FN4-FN5-FN6 of DCC

  • Lorenzo I. Finci 1,2,6 ,
  • Jie Zhang 1,7 ,
  • Xiaqin Sun 1 ,
  • Robert G. Smock 3 ,
  • Rob Meijers 3 ,
  • Yan Zhang , 1,4 ,
  • Junyu Xiao 5 ,
  • Jia-huai Wang , 1,2
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  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 2. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
  • 3. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Hamburg Outstation, Hamburg, Germany
  • 4. PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 5. State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 6. Present address Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences and School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 7. The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 2BE, UK

Published date: 20 Sep 2017

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Lorenzo I. Finci , Jie Zhang , Xiaqin Sun , Robert G. Smock , Rob Meijers , Yan Zhang , Junyu Xiao , Jia-huai Wang . Structure of unliganded membrane-proximal domains FN4-FN5-FN6 of DCC[J]. Protein & Cell, 2017 , 8(9) : 701 -705 . DOI: 10.1007/s13238-017-0439-x

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