Structural disorder and protein elasticity

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 725, Issue , 2012, Pages 159-183

  Rauscher, Sarah ^a,b   Pomès, Régis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTIN; AMYLOID; BIOMATERIAL; CELL PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; ELASTOMER; GLYCINE; INSECT PROTEIN; PROLINE; PROTEIN COID; PROTEIN COIP; RESILIN; ULTRABITHORAX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENTROPY; HYDROGEN BOND; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SILK; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT; YOUNG MODULUS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ARANEAE; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 84859502161     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0659-4_10     Document Type: Article

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