Nanospring behaviour of ankyrin repeats

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7081, 2006, Pages 246-249

  Lee, Gwangrog ^a   Abdi, Khadar ^b   Jiang, Yong ^a   Michaely, Peter ^c   Bennett, Vann ^b   Marszalek, Piotr E ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELASTICITY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PROTEINS;

ANKYRIN REPEATS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL (TRP);

AMINO ACIDS;

ANKYRIN; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL;

PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DROSOPHILA; HAIR CELL; MECHANORECEPTOR; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 33644849450     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04437     Document Type: Article

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