Molecular machines

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 206-211

  Elber, Ron ^a   Kirmizialtin, Serdal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; RNA;

BIOINFORMATICS; CELL COMPONENT; CELL TRANSPORT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MACHINE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84878553015     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.12.002     Document Type: Review

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