Concerted cyclization of lanosterol C-ring and D-ring under human oxidosqualene cyclase catalysis: An ab initio QM/MM MD study

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1109-1120

  Chen, Nanhao ^a   Zhou, Jingwei ^a   Li, Jiabo ^b   Xu, Jun ^a   Wu, Ruibo ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SCHRÖDINGER INC   (United States)

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EID: 84896262993     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct400949b     Document Type: Article

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