Mechanism of fibrin(ogen) forced unfolding

Structure

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1615-1624

  Zhmurov, Artem ^a,b   Brown, Andre E X ^c,e   Litvinov, Rustem I ^c   Dima, Ruxandra I ^d   Weisel, John W ^c   Barsegov, Valeri ^a,b  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^b MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^e MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; MONOMER; OLIGOMER;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER MODEL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; SIMULATION; VISCOELASTICITY;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 80855133530     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: 18784186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2011.08.013     Document Type: Article

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