Accounting for protein-solvent contacts facilitates design of nonaggregating lattice proteins

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 693-700

  Abeln, Sanne ^a   Frenkel, Daan ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79551662403     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.11.088     Document Type: Article

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