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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <links plcontinue="1279|0|Phosphotyrosine_binding_domains" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1279" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <links>
          <pl ns="0" title="Dual-Specificity Kinases" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Evolution of SH2 domains" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Human-Mouse Kinome Update" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Introduction to Kinases" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Kinase Glossary" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Kinase Subfamily CDK20" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Kinase Subfamily Erk7" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Kinase classification" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Phospho-Serine/Threonine binding domains" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Phosphorylation on unusual amino acids" />
        </links>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>