Force-induced conformational transition in a system of interacting stiff polymers: Application to unfolding

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Kumar, Sanjay ^a,b   Giri, Debaprasad ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENUMERATION TECHNIQUE; EXTENSION-FORCE; POLYMER CHAIN; TEMPERATURE DIAGRAM;

CONFORMATIONS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SOLVENTS; STIFFNESS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

POLYMERS;

BIOPOLYMER; PROTEIN;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOPOLYMERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 28844505082     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.052901     Document Type: Article

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