Coiled-coil intermediate filament stutter instability and molecular unfolding

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 483-489

  Arslana, Melis ^a   Qin, Zhao ^a   Buehler, Markus J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha helix; Coiled coil; Intermediate filaments; Materiomics; Nanomechanics; Protein

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BUILDING BLOCKES; CELL MECHANICS; COILED COIL; CYTOSKELETONS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EXPLICIT WATER; EXTERNAL FORCE; GLOBAL EFFECTS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; KEY COMPONENT; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; LOCAL BENDING; MATERIOMICS; METADYNAMICS; SEQUENCE VARIATIONS; STRUCTURAL DISCONTINUITY; STRUCTURAL DISTURBANCES; STRUCTURAL INSTABILITY; VIMENTIN;

AMINO ACIDS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOMECHANICS;

DIMERS;

INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERIZATION; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE; VIMENTIN;

EID: 79956097018     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2011.560147     Document Type: Article

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