Molecular origin of the hierarchical elasticity of titin: Simulation, experiment, and theory

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 187-203

  Hsin, Jen ^a,b   Strümpfer, Johan ^a,c   Lee, Eric H ^b,c   Schulten, Klaus ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Physics ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

elastic protein; mechanical protein; molecular dynamics; steered molecular dynamics

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; FIBRONECTIN; FIBRONECTIN III; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYSINE; PROLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELASTICITY; FORCE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; THEORY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN KINASES; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 79951831503     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-072110-125325     Document Type: Article

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