Excursion of a single polypeptide into a protein pore: Simple physics, but complicated biology

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 913-925

  Mohammad, Mohammad M ^a   Movileanu, Liviu ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Electrostatic interaction; Presequence; Protein design; Protein translocation; Single molecule biophysics

Indexed keywords

BARNASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE (CYTOCHROME); POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; ELECTRICITY; EXPERIMENT; FORCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULE; NANOPORE; PHYSICS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECORDING; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; POROSITY; PROTEINS;

EID: 45849114386     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-008-0309-9     Document Type: Article

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