Force-Clamp Spectroscopy Monitors the Folding Trajectory of a Single Protein

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5664, 2004, Pages 1674-1678

  Fernandez, Julio M ^a   Li, Hongbin ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONFORMATIONS; QUENCHING; REACTION KINETICS; SPECTROSCOPY;

STRETCHING FORCES;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; FORCE CLAMP SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN BOND; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROSCOPY;

CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; POLYUBIQUITIN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TIME FACTORS; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 1542513548     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1092497     Document Type: Article

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