Making a fitting choice: Common aspects of sugar-binding sites in plant and animal lectins

Structure

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 465-468

  Drickamer, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0031569879     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(97)00202-5     Document Type: Review

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