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Conflict of interest statement
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Abbreviations
CBM, carbohydrate-binding module; FIVAR, found-in-various-
architectures; GH, glycoside hydrolase; HMO, human milk
oligosaccharide; LacNAc, N-acetyllactosamine; LNH, lacto-N-
hexaose; LNnT, lacto-N-neotetraose; LNT, lacto-N-tetraose;
pNP, para-nitrophenyl; SDS-PAGE, sodium dodecyl sulfate poly-
acrylamide gel electrophoresis; TLC, thin-layer chromatography.
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