Modeling Structural Flexibility of Proteins with Go-Models
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Approaching structural flexibility with flexibility
Three-dimensional electron microscopy (3D-EM) is a powerful technology for imaging macromolecular complexes. Through a process known as singleparticle reconstruction, tens of thousands of separate images of a complex of interest are used to arrive at a single resolved structure. Although this method works sufficiently well for rigid macromolecular complexes, conformationally flexible complexes ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1549-9618,1549-9626
DOI: 10.1021/ct3000469