The mechanical unfolding of ubiquitin through all-atom Monte Carlo simulation with a Gō-type potential

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2054-2061

  Kleiner, Ariel ^a   Shakhnovich, Eugene ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; ATOM; FORCE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33947642689     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.081257     Document Type: Article

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