Single molecule force spectroscopy of spectrin repeats: Low unfolding forces in helix bundles

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 286, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 553-561

  Rief, Matthias ^a,b   Pascual, Jaime ^c   Saraste, Matti ^c   Gaub, Hermann E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AFM; Force spectroscopy; Protein folding; Spectrin; Unfolding forces

Indexed keywords

SPECTRIN;

ARTICLE; FORCE; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0033582763     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2466     Document Type: Article

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