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d Current address: Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and
Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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55 a Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue,
Davis, CA 95616, USA. E-mail: xiichen@ucdavis.edu; Fax: +1 530-754-
8995; Tel:+1 530-754-6037
b Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303,
USA
60 c National Glycoengineering Research Center, College of Life Sciences,
Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China
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