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Studies of trigonal and tetragonal crystalline forms of aspartate transcarbamylase show that the molecule has a three-fold and a two-fold symmetry axis.
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WILEY, D., LIPSCOMB, W. Crystallographic Determination of Symmetry of Aspartate Transcarbamylase. Nature 218, 1119–1121 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2181119a0
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