Pathways and intermediates in forced unfolding of spectrin repeats

Structure

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1085-1096

  Altmann, Stephan M ^a   Grünberg, Raik G ^b   Lenne, Pierre François ^c   Ylänne, Jari ^d   Raae, Arnt ^e   Herbert, Kristina ^a   Saraste, Matti ^a   Nilges, Michael ^b   Hörber, J K Heinrich ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Elasticity; Molecular dynamic simulation; Spectrin; Unfolding intermediate

Indexed keywords

SPECTRIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FORCE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMAL; CHICKENS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTRIN; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ANIMALS;

EID: 0036045690     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(02)00808-0     Document Type: Article

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