Nanomechanical interactions of phenylalanine-glycine nucleoporins studied by single molecule force-volume spectroscopy

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 159, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 277-289

  Lim, Roderick Y H ^a   Köser, Joachim ^a   Huang, Ning ping ^a   Schwarz Herion, Kyrill ^a   Aebi, Ueli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Binding promiscuity; Nanomechanics; Natively unfolded proteins; Nuclear pore complex; Nucleoporins

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GLYCINE; KARYOPHERIN BETA; MACROGOL; NUCLEOPORIN; PHENYLALANINE; RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE VOLUME SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 34447631998     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2007.01.018     Document Type: Article

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