Ultrafast folding kinetics and cooperativity of villin headpiece in single-molecule force spectroscopy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 45, 2013, Pages 18156-18161

  Žoldák, Gabriel ^a   Stigler, Johannes ^a   Pelz, Benjamin ^a   Li, Hongbin ^b   Rief, Matthias ^a,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chevron plot; Langevin equation; Markov model; Optical trapping; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARAGINE; DNA; GUANIDINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN VARIANT; UBIQUITIN; VILLIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULE; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; SIMULATION; SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS; WILD TYPE;

CHEVRON PLOT; LANGEVIN EQUATION; MARKOV MODEL; OPTICAL TRAPPING; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84887294369     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1311495110     Document Type: Article

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