Insights into the molecular mechanism of membrane fusion from simulation: Evidence for the association of splayed tails

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 18, 2003, Pages

  Stevens, Mark J ^a   Hoh, Jan H ^b   Woolf, Thomas B ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CELLS; CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DEFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

LIPOSOMES; MEMBRANE FUSION;

LIPIDS;

LIPID BILAYER; LIPOSOME;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE FUSION; PHYSIOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPOSOMES; MEMBRANE FUSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 11044225076     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.188102     Document Type: Article

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