Hopping around an entropic barrier created by force

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 403, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 133-137

  Berkovich, Ronen ^a   Garcia Manyes, Sergi ^a   Klafter, Joseph ^b   Urbakh, Michael ^b   Fernández, Julio M ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Force spectroscopy; Hopping; Langevin dynamics; Protein folding; Proteins; Single molecule

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; ENTROPY; FORCE; LANGEVIN DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SIMULATION;

DNA; ENTROPY; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEINS; RNA;

EID: 78649690120     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.10.133     Document Type: Article

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