Can non-mechanical proteins withstand force? Stretching barnase by atomic force microscopy and molecular dynamics simulation

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 2344-2356

  Best, Robert B ^a   Li, Bin ^b   Steward, Annette ^a   Daggett, Valerie ^b   Clarke, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARNASE; CONNECTIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TITIN 127 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHIMERA; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FORCE; MECHANICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034804341     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(01)75881-X     Document Type: Article

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