The IgM Pentamer is an Asymmetric Pentagon with an Open Groove that Binds the AIM Protein (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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The IgM Pentamer is an Asymmetric Pentagon with an Open Groove that Binds the AIM Protein (1 of 1)

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The bona fide 2D structure of the IgM pentamer and its association with AIM. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 10th, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by Emiri Hiramoto at The University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues was titled, "The IgM pentamer is an asymmetric pentagon with an open groove that binds the AIM protein."

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[Credit: Toru Miyazaki & Satoko Arai]

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