The myosin coiled-coil is a truly elastic protein structure

Nature Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 232-235

  Schwaiger, Ingo ^a   Sattler, Clara ^a   Hostetter, Daniel R ^b   Rief, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELLS; ELASTICITY; HYDROGELS;

MYOSIN;

PROTEINS;

MYOSIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RABBIT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RABBITS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0036977558     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat776     Document Type: Article

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