Pathway Shifts and Thermal Softening in Temperature-Coupled Forced Unfolding of Spectrin Domains

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 3286-3293

  Law, Richard ^a   Liao, George ^a   Harper, Sandy ^b   Yang, Guoliang ^c   Speicher, David W ^a,b   Discher, Dennis E ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; SPECTRIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEAT TREATMENT; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; TANDEM REPEAT; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0242353807     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74747-X     Document Type: Article

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