Structural dynamics of thrombin-binding DNA aptamer d(GGTTGGTGTGGTTGG) quadruplex DNA studied by large-scale explicit solvent simulations

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3003-3014

  Reshetnikov, Roman ^a   Golovin, Andrey ^a   Spiridonova, Vera ^a   Kopylov, Alexei ^a   Šponer, Jiří ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

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EID: 77957958900     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct100253m     Document Type: Article

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