The folding pathway of a fast-folding immunoglobulin domain revealed by single-molecule mechanical experiments

EMBO Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 46-51

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

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscope; Filamin; Folding kinetics

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; FILAMINS;

ARTICLE; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

ANIMALS; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; DICTYOSTELIUM; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; KINETICS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 21444445531     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400317     Document Type: Article

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