Molecular extensibility of mini-dystrophins and a dystrophin rod construct

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 352, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 795-806

  Bhasin, Nishant ^a   Law, Richard ^a   Liao, George ^a   Safer, Daniel ^a   Ellmer, Jennifer ^a   Discher, Bohdana M ^a   Sweeney, H Lee ^a   Discher, Dennis E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AFM; Dystrophin; Hinge; Protein folding; Spectrin

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; DYSTROPHIN; MINI DYSTROPHIN; SPECTRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BETA CHAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONSTRUCT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 24644501292     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.07.064     Document Type: Article

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