Nonlinear elasticity of an -helical polypeptide: Monte Carlo studies
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Buddhapriya Chakrabarti and Alex J. Levine Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 USA Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and California Nanosystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA Received 17 November 2004; revised manuscript received 12 June 2006; published 6 September 2006
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