Mechanical resistance in unstructured proteins

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2725-2732

  Jónsson, Sigurour Aegir ^a   Mitternacht, Simon ^b   Irbäck, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOMECHANICS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EID: 84879223193     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.05.003     Document Type: Article

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