Mechanotransduction involving multimodular proteins: Converting force into biochemical signals

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 35, Issue , 2006, Pages 459-488

  Vogel, Viola ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

helical bundles; sheets; Cell adhesion molecules; Fibronectin; Random coil; Spectrin family members; Titin

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; INTEGRIN; ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SCLEROPROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; CELL; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CYTOSKELETON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FORCE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BIOCHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 33645780908     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.35.040405.102013     Document Type: Review

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