Theoretical mimicry of biomembranes

FEBS Letters

Volumn 583, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1909-1915

  Kar, Parimal ^a   Seel, Max ^a   Weidemann, Thomas ^b   Höfinger, Siegfried ^a,c  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomembrane; Membranous environment; Mimicry solvent; Polarizable continuum method

Indexed keywords

SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MEMBRANE COMPONENT; MEMBRANE MODEL; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 67349114584     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.04.040     Document Type: Article

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