Single-molecule measurement of elasticity of Serine-, Glutamate- and Lysine-rich repeats of invertebrate connectin reveals that its elasticity is caused entropically by random coil structure

Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 449-453

  Fukuzawa, Atsushi ^a   Hiroshima, Michio ^b,c   Maruyama, Koscak ^a   Yonezawa, Naoto ^a   Tokunaga, Makio ^b,c,d   Kimura, Sumiko ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^c RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences   (Japan)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; SERINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CRAYFISH; CROSS LINKING; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; INVERTEBRATE; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SARCOMERE; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ASTACOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037907764     PISSN: 01424319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023406422275     Document Type: Review

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