Engineered allosteric mutants of the integrin alphaMbeta2 I domain: structural and functional studies.
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SUBMITTER: McCleverty CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1223386 | biostudies-other | 2003 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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