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Waiting to inhale

Nature Structural Biology volume 3, pages 902–906 (1996)Cite this article

Two structures of bovine odorant binding protein show that this lipocalin is a domain-swapped dimer. The structures stimulate enticing ideas about how this protein transports such a large variety of odorant molecules to the olfactory receptors.

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