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- Whitley MJ, Zhang J, Lee AL. Hydrophobic core mutations in CI2 globally perturb fast side-chain dynamics similarly without regard to position. Biochemistry. 2008;47(33):8566-76.
- Zhang J, Yan YB. Oligomerization and aggregation of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A: backbone hydration probed by infrared band-shift. Protein. Pept. Lett. 2008;15(7):650-7.
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- Zhang J, Yan YB. Probing conformational changes of proteins by quantitative second-derivative infrared spectroscopy. Anal. Biochem. 2005;340(1):89-98.