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We are grateful to Dr Gary Wong, Hao Song, Shuguang Tan and Lifeng Fu for helping prepare the figures and revise the manuscript. This work was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Strategic Priority Research Program (XDB08020100), the External Cooperation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (153211KYSB20160001) and the National Key Plan for Scientific Research and Development of China (2016YFD0500305). George Fu Gao is a leading principal investigator of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Innovative Research Group (81621091). The atomic coordinates and structure factors have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank with PDB ID code 6A7W. X-ray data were collected at beam line 17U of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF).
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Table S3. The information and accession numbers of the MCR-2 homolog proteins used for alignment and conserved analysis, related to Figure 2.
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Wang, X., Lu, Q., Qi, J. et al. Structural and functional insights into MCR-2 mediated colistin resistance. Sci. China Life Sci. 61, 1432–1436 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-018-9363-4
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