Optimizing the calculation of energy landscape parameters from single-molecule protein unfolding experiments

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Tych, Katarzyna M ^a   Hughes, Megan L ^a   Bourke, James ^a   Taniguchi, Yukinori ^b   Kawakami, Masaru ^b   Brockwell, David J ^a   Dougan, Lorna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BELLS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MOLECULES; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROTEINS;

ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA; CONSTANT VELOCITIES; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; FORCE-EXTENSION; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; PULLING VELOCITY; SINGLE MOLECULE EXPERIMENTS; SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE SPECTROSCOPY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84921849612     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.91.012710     Document Type: Article

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