Cooperativity in forced unfolding of tandem spectrin repeats

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 533-544

  Law, Richard ^a   Carl, Philippe ^a   Harper, Sandy ^b   Dalhaimer, Paul ^a   Speicher, David W ^a,b   Discher, Dennis E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; SPECTRIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0037216898     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74872-3     Document Type: Article

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