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A new look for the APC

Solving the structure of protein complexes is particularly challenging when they contain many subunits. In the case of the APC, a fruitful strategy has been to gain information by subtracting subunits. See Article p.227 and Letter p.274

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Figure 1: Structure of the yeast APC1,2,3.

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Foe, I., Toczyski, D. A new look for the APC. Nature 470, 182–183 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/470182a

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