DNA conformational energy from molecular dynamics simulations: Toward the understanding of the indirect readout mechanism in protein-DNA recognition
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1 Department of Biosciences of Bionformatics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka, 820-8502, Japan 2 Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan 3 Neutron Research Center and Center for Promotion of Computational Science and Engineering, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Kyoto, 619-0215, Japan 4 Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0192, Japan
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