Characterization of bending stiffness and spontaneous buckling of alpha-helices and coiled coils

Elasticity of α-helices and coiled coils have often been described by a linear response to local bending with bending stiffness (Kb) and persistence length (Lp) describing their flexibility. However, we observed that the non-bonded forces along the length of these structures are not screened at phys...

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Main Author: Lakkaraju, Sirish Kaushik
Other Authors: Hwang, Wonmuk
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2887
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2887