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The authors declare no competing financial interest.
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We acknowledge Novartis International AG and the National
Institutes of Health (GM58160) for supporting this work. We are
grateful to Dr. Benjamin Martin, Dr. Berthold Schenkel, and Dr.
Gerhard Penn for helpful discussions. We thank the National Sciꢀ
ence Foundation (CHEꢀ0946721) for funding the Xꢀray facility at
MIT. We thank Dr. Peter Mueller for Xꢀray crystallographic data
and Dr. Bruce Adams for his help in NMR analysis. We thank Dr.
Yiming Wang, Dr. Mycah Uehling, Dr. Nicholas White, Dr. Miꢀ
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