Mechanical strength of 17 134 model proteins and cysteine slipknots

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Sikora, Mateusz ^a   Sułkowska, Joanna I ^a,b   Cieplak, Marek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

AMINO-ACIDS; CONSTANT SPEED; DISULPHIDE BRIDGE; EFFECTIVE ENERGY; FORCE CLAMP; MECHANICAL; MODEL PROTEINS; PROTEIN RESISTANCE; STRUCTURE DETERMINATION; STRUCTURE-BASED;

PROTEINS;

AMINO ACID; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLAMP; DISULFIDE BOND; FORCE; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; VELOCITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; PROTEIN FOLDING; TENSILE STRENGTH;

AMINO ACIDS; CYSTEINE; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 73549110486     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000547     Document Type: Article

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