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- June 3, 2020.
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- Sepalika Bandara1,#,
- Nathan Rockwell2,#,
- Xiaoli Zeng1,#,
- Zhong Ren1,
- Cong Wang1,
- Heewhan Shin1,
- Shelley S. Martin2,
- Marcus V. Moreno2,
- J. Clark Lagarias2,* and
- Xiaojing Yang1,3,*
- 1Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
- 2Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
- 3Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
- ↵*Corresponding authors: xiaojing{at}uic.edu, jclagarias{at}ucdavis.edu
↵# These authors contribute to this work equally.
Author contributions XY designed the project; SB, SSM and XZ carried out cloning, purification, and crystallization; SB, XZ, SSM and NR conducted mutagenesis and spectroscopic experiments; SB, XZ, ZR, HS and XY collected monochromatic diffraction data; HS, CW and ZR collected Laue diffraction data; ZR processed the Laue data and carried out single-crystal spectroscopic experiments; SB and XY determined, refined and analyzed crystal structures; NR carried out phylogenetic analysis; SB, XY, NR, MVM, and JCL interpreted the data; XY, NR, and JCL wrote the paper with inputs from all authors.