Mechanical Unfoldons as Building Blocks of Maltose-binding Protein

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 378, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 447-458

  Bertz, Morten ^a   Rief, Matthias ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science   (Germany)

Author keywords

atomic force microscopy; energy landscape; protein folding; single molecule force spectroscopy; unfolding intermediate

Indexed keywords

MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 41249102384     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.02.025     Document Type: Article

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