Ligand-dependent equilibrium fluctuations of single calmodulin molecules

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5914, 2009, Pages 633-637

  Junker, Jan Philipp ^a   Ziegler, Fabian ^a   Rief, Matthias ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALMODULIN;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CALCIUM; CATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; KINETICS; LIGAND; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; STOICHIOMETRY; VENOM;

ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIGANDS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MYOSIN-LIGHT-CHAIN KINASE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; THERMODYNAMICS; WASP VENOMS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 59149096062     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1166191     Document Type: Article

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