Unfolding times for proteins in a force clamp

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Luccioli, Stefano ^a,b   Imparato, Alberto ^c   Mitternacht, Simon ^d,e   Irbäck, Anders ^d   Torcini, Alessandro ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO DEI SISTEMI COMPLESSI   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN PARTICLES; END-TO-END DISTANCES; ESCAPE PROCESS; ESCAPE TIME; FIRST PASSAGE TIME; FORCE CLAMP; INVERSE GAUSSIAN; NATIVE STATE; PROTEIN-FREE; SMOLUCHOWSKI EQUATION; STRETCHING FORCE; THERMAL ACTIVATION; TIME ANALYSIS; TIME DISTRIBUTION; UBIQUITIN; UNFOLDING PROCESS; WEAK FORCE;

GENE EXPRESSION;

PROTEINS;

EID: 76349091603     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.010902     Document Type: Article

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