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NMR structure note: solution structure of human Miz-1 zinc fingers 8 to 10

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada (grant to P.L. and studentships to M.B. and D.B.) and by the Regroupement stratégique sur la fonction, la structure et l’ingénierie des protéines (PROTEO). D.B. also acknowledges PROTEO for the award of graduate studentship. The authors thank Dr. Frank Hänel (Hans-Knöll-Institut für Naturstoff-Forschung e.V, Germany) for kindly providing us with the Miz-1 cDNA, Dr. Yves L. Dory (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada) for giving access and advice to use his HPLC system, Dr. Jean-François Naud for the initial cloning and Dr. Martin Montagne for his helpful comments on the manuscript. Finally, we wish to thank Prof. Jim Omichinski (U. de Montréal) for his help with the refolding protocol of Zinc Fingers.

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  1. Institut de Pharmacologie de Sherbrooke, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Sherbrooke, 3001 12e Avenue Nord, Campus de la santé, Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5N4, Canada

    Mikaël Bédard, Loïka Maltais, Marie-Eve Beaulieu, Josée Bilodeau, David Bernard & Pierre Lavigne

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    Mikaël Bédard, Loïka Maltais, Marie-Eve Beaulieu, Josée Bilodeau, David Bernard & Pierre Lavigne

  3. Regroupement Stratégique sur la Fonction, la Structure et l’Ingénierie des Protéines (PROTEO), Université Laval, Quebec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada

    Mikaël Bédard, Loïka Maltais, Marie-Eve Beaulieu, Josée Bilodeau, David Bernard & Pierre Lavigne

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Bédard, M., Maltais, L., Beaulieu, ME. et al. NMR structure note: solution structure of human Miz-1 zinc fingers 8 to 10. J Biomol NMR 54, 317–323 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10858-012-9670-1

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