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Comment
. 2018 Apr 24;115(17):4314-4316.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1803804115. Epub 2018 Apr 9.

NATure of actin amino-terminal acetylation

Peter A Rubenstein  1 , Kuo-Kuang Wen  2
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NATure of actin amino-terminal acetylation

Peter A Rubenstein et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
The actin monomer (A, Protein Data Bank ID code 2BTF) and the filament (B, ref. 15). The N-terminal peptide (red) and the ADP bound in the nucleotide cleft (cyan) are shown. The four subdomains are denoted on the monomer, and M denotes the individual monomers in the filament.
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