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The first part of this article gives a summary of some of the most important results obtained by single-crystal X-ray diffraction techniques in the study of antibody structure. In the second part, recent result obtained in the authors’laboratory are discussed.
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Poljak, R.J. (1987). The Three-Dimensional Structure of Antibodies. In: Moras, D., Drenth, J., Strandberg, B., Suck, D., Wilson, K. (eds) Crystallography in Molecular Biology. NATO ASI Series, vol 126. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5272-3_33
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