Transient Unfolding and Long-Range Interactions in Viral BCL2 M11 Enable Binding to the BECN1 BH3 Domain
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عنوان ژورنال: Biomolecules
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2218-273X
DOI: 10.3390/biom10091308