Trypsinogen-trypsin transition: a molecular dynamics study of induced conformational change in the activation domain

A T Brünger1, R Huber, M Karplus

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

Biochemistry
|August 11, 1987
PubMed

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