Direct quantification of the flexibility of type I collagen monomer

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 295, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 382-386

  Sun, Yu Long ^a   Luo, Zong Ping ^a,b   Fertala, Andrzej ^a,c   An, Kai Nan ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexibility; Optical tweezers; Persistence length; Type I collagen

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; MONOMER;

ARTICLE; FORCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RIGIDITY; VISCOELASTICITY;

COLLAGEN TYPE I; HUMANS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036064087     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(02)00685-X     Document Type: Article

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