The structure of a membrane-spanning polypeptide studied by molecular dynamics

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O Edholm1, F Jähnig

  • 1Department of Theoretical Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Biophysical Chemistry
|July 15, 1988
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