Theoretical tests of the mechanical protection strategy in protein nanomechanics

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 717-726

  Chwastyk, Mateusz ^a   Galera Prat, Albert ^b   Sikora, Mateusz ^a,c   Gómez Sicilia, Àngel ^b   Carrión Vázquez, Mariano ^b   Cieplak, Marek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coarse grained models; Cystine slipknots; PFS vectors; Single molecule force spectroscopy; Stretching of proteins

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; CYSTINE; PROTEIN; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CYSTINE KNOT MOTIF; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HOST; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL STUDY; BIOMECHANICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CYSTINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 84898049775     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24436     Document Type: Article

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