Abstract
New structural information on the interaction of erythropoietin with its receptor suggests that the orientation of receptor dimers is critical to intracellular activation.
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Ballinger, M., Wells, J. Will any dimer do?. Nat Struct Mol Biol 5, 938–940 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/2911
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