Beyond modeling: All-atom olfactory receptor model simulations

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Lai, Peter C ^a   Crasto, Chiquito J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

GPCR; Ligand binding; Lipid bilayer; Molecular dynamics; Olfactory receptor; Protein modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876016110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00061     Document Type: Article

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