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Structural and dynamic effects of paraoxon binding to human acetylcholinesterase by X-ray crystallography and

Oksana Gerlits1, Mikolai Fajer2, Xiaolin Cheng3

  • 1Department of Natural Sciences, Tennessee Wesleyan University, Athens, TN 37303, USA.

Structure (London, England : 1993)
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X-ray diffractionhAChEinelastic neutron scatteringoxime reactivatorparaoxonvibrational dynamics

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