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Cryo-EM structure of L-fucokinase/GDP-fucose pyrophosphorylase (FKP) in Bacteroides fragilis

  • Ying Liu 1 ,
  • Huifang Hu 2 ,
  • Jia Wang 2 ,
  • Qiang Zhou 2,5 ,
  • Peng Wu 3 ,
  • Nieng Yan 1,2,5 ,
  • Hong-Wei Wang 1,2,4 ,
  • Jia-Wei Wu 2,4 ,
  • Linfeng Sun , 6
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  • 1. Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 2. School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 3. Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
  • 4. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Protein Sciences, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 5. State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 6. CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China

Published date: 15 May 2019

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Ying Liu , Huifang Hu , Jia Wang , Qiang Zhou , Peng Wu , Nieng Yan , Hong-Wei Wang , Jia-Wei Wu , Linfeng Sun . Cryo-EM structure of L-fucokinase/GDP-fucose pyrophosphorylase (FKP) in Bacteroides fragilis[J]. Protein & Cell, 2019 , 10(5) : 365 -369 . DOI: 10.1007/s13238-018-0576-x

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