Thermal folding and mechanical unfolding pathways of protein secondary structures
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Thermal folding and mechanical unfolding pathways of protein secondary structures.
Mechanical stretching of secondary structures is studied through molecular dynamics simulations of a Go-like model. Force versus displacement curves are studied as a function of the stiffness and velocity of the pulling device. The succession of stretching events, as measured by the order in which contacts are ruptured, is compared to the sequencing of events during thermal folding and unfoldin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0887-3585,1097-0134
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10188