Mechanical Design of the Third FnIII Domain of Tenascin-C

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 386, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1327-1342

  Peng, Qing ^a   Zhuang, Shulin ^a   Wang, Meijia ^a   Cao, Yi ^a   Khor, Yuanai ^a   Li, Hongbin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

mechanical unfolding; single molecule force spectroscopy; steered molecular dynamics simulation; tenascin; unfolding pathway

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN; FIBRONECTIN 3; PROLINE; TENASCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BETA SHEET; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 60849131856     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.01.019     Document Type: Article

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