Supplementary Information for “Discovery of Novel Chemoeffectors and Rational Design of Escherichia coli Chemoreceptor Specificity”
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a BNLMS, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. b Center for Quantitative Biology, AAIS, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. c College of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. d Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. e Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. f Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, D-35043 Marburg, Germany. g IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, USA.
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