High-resolution free-energy landscape analysis of α-helical protein folding: HP35 and its double mutant

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5257-5266

  Banushkina, Polina V ^a   Krivov, Sergei V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84890518503     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct400651z     Document Type: Article

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