Single-molecule mechanoenzymatics

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 497-518

  Puchner, Elias M ^a   Gaub, Hermann E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enzyme regulation; Force sensing; Mechanosensing; Single molecule fluorescence; Single molecule force spectroscopy; Titin kinase

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; TALIN; VINCULIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

CHEMICAL REACTION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; FLUORESCENCE; MECHANOENZYMATIC; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

BIOMECHANICS; ENZYMES; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84861380340     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: 19361238     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-050511-102301     Document Type: Review

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