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The authors are grateful to all members of the
Structural Biology Center at Argonne National
Laboratory for their help in conducting these expe-
riments. This work was supported by the National
Science Foundation (CHE-0652981, R.C.H.), the
National Institutes of Health (GM074942, A.J.),
and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of
Biological and Environmental Research, under
contract DE-AC02-06CH11357 (A.J.).
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