built (the longest abundant acyl chain length in EPLs) or until no
additional density appeared upon further cycles. Figures were
Accession codes
Atomic coordinates and structure factor files have been deposited
with the Protein Data Bank under the accession code 3M9I.
Supplementary data
Supplementary data are available at The EMBO Journal Online
Acknowledgements
This study was supported by NIH grant R01 EY015107 (to TW). TW
is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. We thank
S Harrison and Y Fujiyoshi for continuous support and advice;
K Abe for advice regarding specimen preparation and T Rapoport
for insightful discussions. RKH and TW conceived and designed
the project. RKH performed the experiments. ZL assisted with data
collection. RKH and TW wrote the paper.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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