Structures of a protein used to make crucial sugar-carrying lipids uncover a surprising reaction mechanism and a built-in brake that emerged during primate evolution.
26 August 2026
Structures of a protein used to make crucial sugar-carrying lipids uncover a surprising reaction mechanism and a built-in brake that emerged during primate evolution.
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Yaxin Dai
Yaxin Dai is in the Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
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