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(L-R) Dr. Hemu Xinya, Professor James Tam, Associate Professor Julien Lescar, and Dr. Abbas El Sahili. Scientists from NTU Singapore, led by Professor James Tam and Associate Professor Julien Lescar, have pinpointed how a special class of plant-derived enzymes, known as peptide ligases, work to join proteins together. Such binding is an important process in the development of drugs, for example in specifically attaching a chemotherapy drug to an antibody that recognizes tumor markers to target cancer cells.

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