Structure of giant muscle proteins

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 4 DEC, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Meyer, Logan C ^a   Wright, Nathan T ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibronectin type III; Immunoglobulin; Nebulin; Obscurin; Structure; Titin

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN; MYOSIN BINDING PROTEIN C; NEBULIN; OBSCURIN;

ATOMIC PARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MYOFILAMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARTICLE SIZE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SARCOMERE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84891724611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2013.00368     Document Type: Review

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