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Much binding in the lab

Nature volume 418, pages 375–376 (2002)Cite this article

Application of a concept drawn from two areas of macromolecular chemistry shows how artificial binding sites that resemble those found in globular proteins can be made.

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Figure 1: The approach used by Zimmerman et al.1 to create a synthetic globular structure enclosing a molecular recognition site.

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