Information flow and protein dynamics: The interplay between nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Pastor, Nina ^a   Amero, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES QUÍMICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Allosterism; Binding; Dynamics; Folding intermediates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934878563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00306     Document Type: Review

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