The elastic I-band region of titin is assembled in a "modular" fashion by weakly interacting Ig-like domains

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 255, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 604-616

  Politou, A S ^a,b   Gautel, M ^a   Improta, S ^a   Vangelista, L ^a   Pastore, A ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Connectin; Elasticity; Interface; Module; Muscle; Unfolding

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030009318     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0050     Document Type: Article

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