Friction of F-actin knots.
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چکیده
We use the existing data of force-extension experiments on F-actin molecules tied into knots to compute a value of 0.15 for the static friction coefficient for contact between different parts of the same molecule with itself. This estimate for protein-protein friction is relevant for the stabilization of the 273 known proteins with knots, one percent of the structures deposited in the Protein Data Bank.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials
دوره 3 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010