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Nature Structural Biology volume 7, pages 11–13 (2000)Cite this article

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Changes in the atomic coordinate fluctuations contribute to the entropy of biomolecular processes such as complex formation. Characterizations of such changes in proteins reveal that the response may be dramatically different between the backbone and the side chains, and further resolve enthalpy-entropy compensation at the molecular level.

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Figure 1: Ribbon diagram of GCN4-58 complexed with DNA.

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