Open "back door" in a molecular dynamics simulation of acetylcholinesterase.

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Published in Science on March 04, 1994

Authors

M K Gilson1, T P Straatsma, J A McCammon, D R Ripoll, C H Faerman, P H Axelsen, I Silman, J L Sussman

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1: Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, TX 77204-5641.

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