Global Motions of the Nuclear Pore Complex: Insights from Elastic Network Models
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Global Motions of the Nuclear Pore Complex: Insights from Elastic Network Models
The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is the gate to the nucleus. Recent determination of the configuration of proteins in the yeast NPC at approximately 5 nm resolution permits us to study the NPC global dynamics using coarse-grained structural models. We investigate these large-scale motions by using an extended elastic network model (ENM) formalism applied to several coarse-grained representations ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Computational Biology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1553-7358
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000496