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Crystallographic Studies of a Human Immunoglobulin

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The first X-ray diffraction pictures of an intact immunoglobulin protein have been obtained.

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  1. Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20014

    W. D. TERRY

  2. Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20014

    B. W. MATTHEWS & D. R. DAVIES

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TERRY, W., MATTHEWS, B. & DAVIES, D. Crystallographic Studies of a Human Immunoglobulin. Nature 220, 239–241 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220239a0

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