Protein dynamics and conformational selection in bidirectional signal transduction

BMC Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Nussinov, Ruth ^a,b   Ma, Buyong ^a  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 84856078561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-10-2     Document Type: Note

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