A wealth of prediction about the structure of spectrin has now been confirmed by the x-ray crystallographic analysis of a dimer of spectrin repeat units. The data provide a structural rationale for various haemolytic anaemias.
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Gratzer, W. From helix to haemolysis. Nat Struct Mol Biol 1, 78–79 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsb0294-78
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