Structural mechanism underlying capsaicin binding and activation of TRPV1 ion channel
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Supplementary Results Supplementary Fig. 1. Work flow of iterative computational docking of capsaicin and functional analyses to reveal structural configuration of capsaicin inside its binding pocket and different capsaicin bound states of TRPV1.
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