Macromolecular electrostatics: Continuum models and their growing pains

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 243-252

  Simonson, T ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RNA; SOLVENT;

ENERGY TRANSFER; MACROMOLECULE; MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION;

EID: 0035312551     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(00)00197-4     Document Type: Review

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