A mechanical unfolding intermediate in an actin-crosslinking protein

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 81-85

  Schwaiger, Ingo ^a   Kardinal, Angelika ^a   Schleicher, Michael ^a   Noegel, Angelika A ^b   Rief, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; F ACTIN; FILAMIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; FORCE; IN VIVO STUDY; MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DICTYOSTELIUM; DIMERIZATION; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0842313009     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb705     Document Type: Article

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