Alpha-helical protein networks are self-protective and flaw-tolerant

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Ackbarow, Theodor ^a   Sen, Dipanjan ^a   Thaulow, Christian ^a   Buehler, Markus J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROGEN BOND; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BIOMECHANICS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOSKELETON; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACTIN; PROTEIN;

ACTINS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 67650337244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006015     Document Type: Article

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