An improved strategy for generating forces in steered molecular dynamics: The mechanical unfolding of titin, e2lip3 and ubiquitin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Ho, Bosco K ^a   Agard, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; E2LIP3; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATOM; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PULSED UNCONSTRAINED FLUCTUATING FORCES; STEERED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 77958535684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013068     Document Type: Article

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