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Sneha Vishwanath1, Narayanaswamy Srinivasan1

  • 1Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
|August 25, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
Interface flexibilityPromiscuous bindingProteinase inhibitorsProteinasesProtein–protein interactionSequence variability

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