An unusual hydrophobic core confers extreme flexibility to HEAT repeat proteins.

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Published in Biophys J on September 08, 2010

Authors

Christian Kappel1, Ulrich Zachariae, Nicole Dölker, Helmut Grubmüller

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.

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