Developing an energy landscape for the novel function of a (beta/alpha)8 barrel: ammonia conduction through HisF.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on June 10, 2003

Authors

Rommie Amaro1, Emad Tajkhorshid, Zaida Luthey-Schulten

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Chemistry and Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.

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