Computational investigation of the effect of thermal perturbation on the mechanical unfolding of titin I27

Journal of Molecular Modeling

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2823-2829

  Bung, Navneet ^a   Priyakumar, U Deva ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Denaturation; Folding pathways; Mechanical stability; Protein folding; Steered molecular dynamics; Titin I27

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN;

ARTICLE; FORCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSTABILITY; VELOCITY;

HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84864651910     PISSN: 16102940     EISSN: 09485023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00894-011-1298-7     Document Type: Article

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