Simulations of Tubulin Sheet Polymers as Possible Structural Intermediates in Microtubule Assembly

• Zhanghan Wu,

  Affiliations Program in Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Hong-Wei Wang,

  Affiliations Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Weihua Mu,

  Affiliations Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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• Zhongcan Ouyang,

  Affiliations Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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• Eva Nogales,

  Affiliations Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Jianhua Xing

  * E-mail: xing@vt.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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