Flexible fitting of high-resolution x-ray structures into cryoelectron microscopy maps using biased molecular dynamics simulations

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5692-5705

  Orzechowski, Marek ^a   Tama, Florence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR G;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TEMPERATURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR G; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 58749105833     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.108.139451     Document Type: Article

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