Sequence-resolved free energy profiles of stress-bearing vimentin intermediate filaments

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

Volumn 111, Issue 31, 2014, Pages 11359-11364

  Ramm, Beatrice ^a   Stigler, Johannes ^a,e   Hinczewski, Michael ^b   Thirumalai, D ^b   Herrmann, Harald ^c   Woehlke, Günther ^a   Rief, Matthias ^a,d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d NANOSYSTEMS INITIATIVE MUNICH NIM   (Germany)

^e Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian dynamics simulation; Protein folding; Trigger sequence

Indexed keywords

VIMENTIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN COILED COIL 2B; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS;

BROWNIAN DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; TRIGGER SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THERMODYNAMICS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 84905647854     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1403122111     Document Type: Article

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