Comparing proteins by their unfolding pattern

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 426-434

  Puchner, Elias M ^a   Franzen, Gereon ^b   Gautel, Mathias ^b   Gaub, Hermann E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 46749112650     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.108.129999     Document Type: Article

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