Fibronectin forms the most extensible biological fibers displaying switchable force-exposed cryptic binding sites

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

Volumn 106, Issue 43, 2009, Pages 18267-18272

  Klotzsch, Enrico ^a   Smith, Michael L ^a,b   Kubow, Kristopher E ^a,c   Muntwyler, Simon ^a   Little, William C ^a   Beyeler, Felix ^a   Gourdon, Delphine ^a,d   Nelson, Bradley J ^a   Vogel, Viola ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibrillogenesis; Matrix biology; Mechanotransduction; Multimodular proteins; Supramolecular assembly

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; EPITOPE; FIBRONECTIN; PLASTIC;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSENSOR; CELL FUNCTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBER; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FORCE; HYDROGEN BOND; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; TENSION; UPREGULATION; YOUNG MODULUS;

BINDING SITES; FIBRONECTINS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 70849127367     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907518106     Document Type: Article

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