Actin-binding proteins sensitively mediate F-actin bundle stiffness

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 748-753

  Claessens, Mireille M A E ^a   Bathe, Mark ^b   Frey, Erwin ^b   Bausch, Andreas R ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSLINKING; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MUSCLE;

BENDING STIFFNESS; MECHANICAL MODELS; PLASMIDS; WORM-LIKE CHAIN (WLC);

PROTEINS;

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTINS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 33748264168     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1718     Document Type: Article

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