Abstract
A new study may have surprising implications for drug-design research, suggesting that multivalent ligands targeting multiple binding sites need not fully span the distance between sites to be highly effective.
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Eisenstein, M. Don't mind the gap. Nat Methods 1, 96–97 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1104-96b
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1104-96b
