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Flexible peptide assembly

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A jack of all trades is a master of none, as the saying goes. But a protein has been discovered that shuns specialism, and that multitasks to give flexibility to its biosynthetic repertoire.

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  1. Jan C. M. van Hest is in the Department of Organic Chemistry, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, Nijmegen 6525 AJ, the Netherlands. j.vanhest@science.ru.nl,

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van Hest, J. Flexible peptide assembly. Nature 456, 186–187 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456186a

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