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Twixt form and function

Nature Structural Biology volume 2, pages 919–922 (1995)Cite this article

Uteroglobin—a small, water soluble homodimeric protein possessing a large interior cavity—encloses a variety of endogenous and xenobiotic hydrophobic molecules. Although the structural results have mechanistic implications, the function of the protein remains speculative.

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