Probing the origin of tubulin rigidity with molecular simulations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 41, 2008, Pages 15743-15748

  Dima, Ruxandra I ^a   Joshi, Harshad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse grained simulations; Dynamic instability; Forced unfolding; Single molecule; Unfolding pathways

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; HETERODIMER; MONOMER; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CYTOSKELETON; MICROTUBULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RIGIDITY; SIMULATION; VISCOELASTICITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; TUBULIN;

EID: 57349100824     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806113105     Document Type: Article

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