Genetically encoded force sensors for measuring mechanical forces in proteins

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 385-390

  Wang, Yuexiu ^a,b   Meng, Fanjie ^a   Sachs, Frederick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Cytoskeleton; Fluorescence resonance energy transfer; Force sensor; Mechanical force; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79960098421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.15505     Document Type: Short Survey

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