Modeling glycolipids: Take one

Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 625-630

  Róg, Tomasz ^a,b   Vattulainen, Ilpo ^c,d   Karttunen, Mikko ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c HELSINKI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Force Fields; Glycolipids; Molecular Dynamics; Rafts

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL DERIVATIVE; GLYCOLIPID;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 31544474041     PISSN: 14258153     EISSN: 16891392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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