Molecular dynamics simulations suggest ligand's binding to nicotinamidase/pyrazinamidase.

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Published in PLoS One on June 26, 2012

Authors

Ji-Long Zhang1, Qing-Chuan Zheng, Zheng-Qiang Li, Hong-Xing Zhang

Author Affiliations

1: State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China. zhanghx@mail.jlu.edu.cn

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