The mechanical stability of immunoglobulin and fibronectin III domains in the muscle protein titin measured by atomic force microscopy

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 3008-3014

  Rief, Matthias ^a   Gautel, Mathias ^b   Schemmel, Alexander ^a   Gaub, Hermann E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; FIBRONECTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; TENASCIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FORCE; MUSCLE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031767965     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77741-0     Document Type: Article

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