Cysteine engineering of polyproteins for single-molecule force spectroscopy

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 80-84

  Dietz, Hendrik ^a   Bertz, Morten ^a   Schlierf, Michael ^a   Berkemeier, Felix ^a   Bornschlögl, Thomas ^a   Junker, Jan Philipp ^a   Rief, Matthias ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; POLYPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; POLYPROTEINS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748028865     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.12     Document Type: Article

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