Kinetics of fragmentation and dissociation of two-strand protein filaments: Coarse-grained simulations and experiments

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 145, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Zaccone, A ^a,b   Terentjev, I ^c   Herling, T W ^a   Knowles, T P J ^a   Aleksandrova, A ^b   Terentjev, E M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Granta Design Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOLYMERIZATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

CALIBRATED MODEL; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; MAGNITUDE PREDICTIONS; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PROTEIN FILAMENTS; PROTEIN SELF-ASSEMBLIES; REVERSE PROCESS;

PROTEINS;

ACTIN; AMYLOID;

CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE;

ACTINS; AMYLOID; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84987940158     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4962366     Document Type: Article

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