Mechanics of forced unfolding of proteins

Acta Biomaterialia

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1855-1863

  Su, Tianxiang ^a   Purohit, Prashant K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AFM; Kinetic model; Proteins

Indexed keywords

KINETIC PARAMETERS; KINETIC THEORY; OLIGOMERS;

AFM; CONTOUR LENGTHS; FORCE-EXTENSION; FREELY JOINTED CHAINS; KINETIC MODELS; KUHN LENGTHS; REFOLDING; TWO-STATE; UBIQUITIN; UNFOLDINGS;

PROTEINS;

FIBRINOGEN; OLIGOMER; UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; FORCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 67349205030     PISSN: 17427061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2009.01.038     Document Type: Article

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