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domain swapping

The formation of a protein homo-oligomer by the replacement of a domain of each protomer with the same domain of an adjacent protomer.Bennett, M.J., Choe, S. and Eisenberg, D. (1994) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 91, 3127-3131

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