Engineered single-chain, antiparallel, coiled coil mimics the MerR metal binding site.

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Published in J Bacteriol on March 01, 2004

Authors

Lingyun Song1, Jonathan Caguiat, Zhongrui Li, Jacob Shokes, Robert A Scott, Lynda Olliff, Anne O Summers

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Microbiology and Center for Metalloenzyme Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA.

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