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Cystine nooses and protein specificity

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A new structural motif that may be important in receptor-binding specificity is identified as a disulphide-constrained, surface-exposed loop.

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  2. Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, WC1E 7HX, England

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