Multistep protein unfolding during nanopore translocation

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 288-295

  Rodriguez Larrea, David ^a   Bayley, Hagan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID BILAYERS; MOLECULES; NANOPORES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES;

FOLDED PROTEINS; FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; LIPID BILAYER MEMBRANES; MODEL PROTEINS; NANOPORE TRANSLOCATION; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; TAGGED PROTEINS; TRANS-MEMBRANE PORES;

PROTEINS;

DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; THIOREDOXIN;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULE; MUTATION; NANOPORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ELECTRICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NANOPORES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; RABBITS; THIOREDOXINS; UREA;

EID: 84876412824     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.22     Document Type: Article

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