Assay to mechanically tune and optically probe fibrillar fibronectin conformations from fully relaxed to breakage

Matrix Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 451-461

  Little, William C ^a   Smith, Michael L ^a   Ebneter, Urs ^a   Vogel, Viola ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fibronectin; Fluorescence resonance energy transfer; FRET; Mechanochemical signal conversion; Mechanotransduction; Protein unfolding

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; FIBER; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FORCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLASTS; FIBRONECTINS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SILICONES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 45049084735     PISSN: 0945053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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