Individual globular domains and domain unfolding visualized in overstretched titin molecules with atomic force microscopy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mártonfalvi, Zsolt ^a   Kellermayer, Miklós ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CONNECTIN; FIBRONECTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; TITIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BETA SHEET; BINDING SITE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; STRETCHING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MALE; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RABBIT; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CONNECTIN; FIBRONECTINS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; RABBITS;

EID: 84894039538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085847     Document Type: Article

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