Simulated refolding of stretched titin immunoglobulin domains

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 2268-2277

  Gao, Mu ^a,b   Lu, Hui ^b,c   Schulten, Klaus ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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

^c DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; HYDROGEN BOND; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; SARCOMERE; SIMULATION;

EID: 0034805058     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(01)75874-2     Document Type: Article

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