Free energy profiles from single-molecule pulling experiments

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 50, 2010, Pages 21441-21446

  Hummer, Gerhard ^a   Szabo, Attila ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscope; Force spectroscopy; Free energy calculation; Nonequilibrium work relations; Steered molecular dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ENERGY; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78650753691     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015661107     Document Type: Article

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