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Porthole to catalysis

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The crystal structure of a sugar-transferring enzyme offers insight into the mechanism of a ubiquitous protein-modification reaction, and solves the mystery of how the enzyme recognizes certain sequences in proteins. See Article p.350

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Figure 1: Oligosaccharide transfer reactions.

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