Tetrameric mouse acetylcholinesterase: continuum diffusion rate calculations by solving the steady-state Smoluchowski equation using finite element methods.

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Published in Biophys J on December 30, 2004

Authors

Deqiang Zhang1, Jason Suen, Yongjie Zhang, Yuhua Song, Zoran Radic, Palmer Taylor, Michael J Holst, Chandrajit Bajaj, Nathan A Baker, J Andrew McCammon

Author Affiliations

1: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA. dzhang@mccammon.ucsd.edu

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