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Goethe University Frankfurt

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A bit like a boot: The L-shaped structure of mitochondrial complex I at a resolution of 2.1 Ångström (0.00000021 millimetres), captured with a cryo-electron microscope.

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Janet Vonck, MPI of Biophysics

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