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Artem Zhmurov1, Olga Kononova, Rustem I Litvinov

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, United States.

概括

这项研究揭示了纤维原体中的α-螺旋螺旋线圈如何在力作用下过渡到β-片. 这种软相过渡可能解释了线状蛋白质的机械性质.

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