Quantitative assessment of the relative contributions of steric repulsion and chemical interactions to macromolecular

Allen P Minton1

  • 1Section on Physical Biochemistry, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD. minton@helix.nih.gov.

Biopolymers
|January 26, 2013
PubMed

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