Complex intramolecular mechanics of G-actin--an elastic network study.

Systematic numerical investigations of conformational motions in single actin molecules were performed by employing a simple elastic-network (EN) model of this protein. Similar to previous investigations for myosin, we found that G-actin essentially behaves as a strain sensor, responding by well-def...

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Main Authors: Markus Düttmann, Markus Mittnenzweig, Yuichi Togashi, Toshio Yanagida, Alexander S Mikhailov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3471905?pdf=render