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Crystal structure of the C-terminal fragment of NS1 protein from yellow fever virus

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Acknowledgements

We thank the staff of the BL17U beamline at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility. We are grateful to Qian Wang (Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for technical help with analytical ultracentrifugation experiments. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81702015), the National Key Plan for Scientific Research and Development of China (2016YFD0500300) and the National Science and Technology Major Project (2017ZX10303403). Yi Shi is supported by the Excellent Young Scientist Program of the NSFC (81622031), the Excellent Young Scientist Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (2015078). Hao Song is supported by the Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) (2016QNRC001) and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (2017117). George F Gao is a leading principal investigator of the NSFC Innovative Research Group (81621091).

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Wang, H., Han, M., Qi, J. et al. Crystal structure of the C-terminal fragment of NS1 protein from yellow fever virus. Sci. China Life Sci. 60, 1403–1406 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-017-9238-8

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