Energy landscape, structure and rate effects on strength properties of alpha-helical proteins

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Bertaud, Jérémie ^a   Hester, Joshua ^a   Jimenez, Daniel D ^a   Buehler, Markus J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA-HELICAL PROTEINS; ALPHA-HELIX; APPLIED STRAIN; ASYMPTOTIC REGIMES; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL PROTEINS; CHEMICAL BONDINGS; DEFORMATION VELOCITY; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; ENGINEERED MATERIALS; KEY PARAMETERS; MATERIAL BUILDING; MECHANICAL STRENGTH; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; POTENTIAL FORMULATIONS; PROTEIN DOMAINS; PROTEIN FILAMENTS; PULLING VELOCITY; RATE EFFECTS; REFOLDING; STRENGTH MODELS; STRENGTH PROPERTY; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; TIME-SCALES; TISSUE MECHANICS; TISSUE REMODELING; WEAKENING EFFECT;

BELLS; BUILDING MATERIALS; CHEMICAL BONDS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ENERGY BARRIERS; FILAMENTS (LAMP); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 74949104360     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/22/3/035102     Document Type: Article

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