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Gonella, G., Dai, H.-L., Fry, H. C., Therien, M. J., Krishnan, V., Tronin, A. and Blasie, J.K. (2010) Control of the Orientational Order and Nonlinear Optical Response of the "Push-Pull" Chromophore RuPZn via Specific Incorporation into Densely-Packed Monolayer Ensembles of an Amphiphilic 4-Helix Bundle Peptide: Second Harmonic Generation at High Chromophore Densities. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132 (28): 9693–9700.
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Zheng, S., Strzalka, J., Jones, D.H., Opella, S.J. and Blasie, J.K. (2003) Comparative Structural Studies of Vpu Peptides in Phospholipid Monolayers by X-ray Scattering. Biophys. J. 84(4): 2393-2415.
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Lopez, C. F., Montal, M., Blasie, J.K., Klein, M.L. and Moore, P.B. (2002) Molecular Dynamics Investigation of Membrane-Bound Bundles of the Channel Forming Transmembrane Domain of Viral Protein U from the Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV. Biophys. J. 83(3): 1259-1267.
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Tronin, A., Edwards, A.M., Wright, W.W., Vanderkooi, J.M. and Blasie, J.K. (2002) Orientational Distributions for Cytochrome c on Polar & Nonpolar Soft Surfaces by Polarized Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence. Biophys. J. 82: 996-1003.
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