Titin extensibility in situ: Entropic elasticity of permanently folded and permanently unfolded molecular segments

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 853-859

  Trombitás, Karoly ^a   Greaser, Marion ^b   Labeit, Siegfried ^c   Jin, Jian Ping ^d   Kellermayer, Miklós ^a,e   Helmes, Michiel ^a   Granzier, Henk ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MODEL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SARCOMERE;

CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN KINASES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SARCOMERES;

EID: 0032559640     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.140.4.853     Document Type: Article

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