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Effects of Altered Restraints in β1 Integrin on the Force-Regulated Interaction between the Glycosylated I-Like Domain of β1 Integrin and Fibronectin III_9-10: A Steered Molecular Dynamic Study

Di Pan^*, Yuhua Song^∗,†

* Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294
† To whom correspondence should be addressed: Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 803 Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building, 1825 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294. Phone: (205) 996-6939, Fax: (205) 975-4919, Email: yhsong@uab.edu, Web: http://www.eng.uab.edu/yhsong