Mechanical unfolding intermediates in titin modules

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6757, 1999, Pages 100-103

  Marszalek, Plotr E ^a   Lu, Hui ^b   Li, Hongbin ^a   Carrion Vazquez, Mariano ^a   Oberhauser, Andres F ^a   Schulten, Klaus ^b   Fernandez, Julio M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SIMULATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOCARDIUM; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0033523904     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/47083     Document Type: Article

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