Mechanical unfolding pathway and origin of mechanical stability of proteins of ubiquitin family: An investigation by steered molecular dynamics simulation

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1024-1034

  Das, Atanu ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Chaitali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Mechanical unfolding; Origin of mechanical stability; Steered molecular dynamics simulation; Ubiquitin family; Unfolding intermediate

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; NEDD8 PROTEIN; SUMO 2 PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SMALL UBIQUITIN-RELATED MODIFIER PROTEINS; UBIQUITINS;

EID: 66149165741     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22314     Document Type: Article

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