Superhelical architecture of the myosin filament-linking protein myomesin with unusual elastic properties

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Pinotsis, Nikos ^a,b   Chatziefthimiou, Spyros D ^a,c   Berkemeier, Felix ^d   Beuron, Fabienne ^b   Mavridis, Irene M ^c   Konarev, Petr V ^a   Svergun, Dmitri I ^a   Morris, Edward ^b   Rief, Matthias ^d   Wilmanns, Matthias ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOMESIN; MYOSIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MYOFILAMENT; OLIGOMERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SARCOMERE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELASTICITY; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SARCOMERES; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE;

EID: 84857477240     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001261     Document Type: Article

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