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Tiny enzyme uses context to succeed

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How the enzyme diacylglycerol kinase can form membrane anchors and an active site from so few amino-acid residues has long been a mystery. Crystal structures reveal that it gets by with a little help from its friends. See Letter p.521

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Figure 1: A view of diacylglycerol kinase (DgkA).

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 15 May 2013.

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  1. Jimin Zheng is in the College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.,

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  2. Zongchao Jia is in the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Science, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada.,

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Zheng, J., Jia, Z. Tiny enzyme uses context to succeed. Nature 497, 445–446 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12245

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