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Cool and dynamic: single-molecule fluorescence-based structural biology

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Figure 1: Protein structure and dynamics are modeled from self-consistent distance networks from single-molecule FRET measurements as exemplified here with the HSP90 homodimer.

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Craggs, T. Cool and dynamic: single-molecule fluorescence-based structural biology. Nat Methods 14, 123–124 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4159

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