The titin-telethonin complex is a directed, superstable molecular bond in the muscle Z-disk

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

Volumn 106, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 13307-13310

  Bertz, Morten ^a   Wilmanns, Matthias ^c   Rief, Matthias ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Force spectroscopy; Protein engineering; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; TELETHONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL BOND; COMPLEX FORMATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; MUSCLE FORCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SARCOMERE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS;

BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SARCOMERES;

EID: 69449083856     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902312106     Document Type: Article

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