Direct observation of an ensemble of stable collapsed states in the mechanical folding of ubiquitin

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

Volumn 106, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 10534-10539

  Garcia Manyes, Sergi ^a   Dougan, Lorna ^a,c   Badilla, Carmen L ^a   Brujić, Jasna ^b   Fernández, Julio M ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Force clamp spectroscopy; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ENERGY; FORCE CLAMP SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 67649774600     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901213106     Document Type: Article

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