Predicting the order in which contacts are broken during single molecule protein stretching experiments

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-60

  Sułkowska, Joanna L ^a   Kloczkowski, Andrzej ^b   Sen, Taner Z ^b   Cieplak, Marek ^a   Jernigan, Robert L ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastic network model; Gaussian network model; G model; Green fluorescent protein; Mechanical unfolding; Protein stretching; Titin

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CALCULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEINS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 40549141130     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21652     Document Type: Article

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