Electrostatics of Proteins: Principles, Models and Applications

Protein Folding Handbook

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 163-200

  Braun Sand, Sonja ^a   Warshel, Arieh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; Electrostatic models; Electrostatic theory; Macroscopic electric field; Principles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889858536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527619498.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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