A revisit of the conformational dynamics of SNARE protein rYkt6

Shaowen Wu1, Dongdong Wang1, Jingwei Weng1

  • 1Multiscale Research Institute of Complex Systems, Department of Chemistry and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China.

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