Addressing compressive deformation of proteins embedded in crystalline ice

Huigang Shi1, Chunling Wu1, Xinzheng Zhang1

  • 1National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100101, P.R. China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P.R. China.

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