In silico mutagenesis: a case study of the melanocortin 4 receptor.

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Published in FASEB J on May 05, 2009

Authors

Yana Bromberg1, John Overton, Christian Vaisse, Rudolph L Leibel, Burkhard Rost

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. bromberg@rostlab.org

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