Exploring the contribution of collective motions to the dynamics of forced-unfolding in tubulin

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 657-666

  Joshi, Harshad ^a   Momin, Farhana ^b   Haines, Kelly E ^a   Dima, Ruxandra I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 77249096356     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.10.043     Document Type: Article

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