Residue-specific side-chain packing determines the backbone dynamics of transmembrane model helices

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2541-2549

  Quint, Stefan ^a,b,c   Widmaier, Simon ^a,b,d   Minde, David ^a,b,e   Hornburg, Daniel ^a,b   Langosch, Dieter ^a,b   Scharnagl, Christina ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 78049336297     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.08.031     Document Type: Article

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