Cavity as a source of conformational fluctuation and high-energy state: high-pressure NMR study of a cavity-enlarged mutant of T4 lysozyme.

@article{Maeno2015CavityAA,
  title={Cavity as a source of conformational fluctuation and high-energy state: high-pressure NMR study of a cavity-enlarged mutant of T4 lysozyme.},
  author={Akihiro Maeno and Daniel J. Sindhikara and Fumio Hirata and Renee Otten and Frederick W. Dahlquist and Shigeyuki Yokoyama and Kazuyuki Akasaka and Frans A. A. Mulder and Ryo Kitahara},
  journal={Biophysical journal},
  year={2015},
  volume={108 1},
  pages={
          133-45
        }
}
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