project = "Energy Landscape Roughness"
}
-@article { ng07,
+@article { ng07a,
author = SNg #" and "# KBillings #" and "# TOhashi #" and "# MAllen #" and
"# RBest #" and "# LRandles #" and "# HErickson #" and "# JClarke,
title = "Designing an extracellular matrix protein with enhanced mechanical
stability",
year = 2007,
+ month = jun,
+ day = 5,
journal = PNAS,
volume = 104,
number = 23,
functional surface interactions."
}
+@article { ng07b,
+ author = SNg #" and "# JClarke,
+ title = "Experiments Suggest that Simulations May Overestimate
+ Electrostatic Contributions to the Mechanical Stability of a
+ Fibronectin Type {III} Domain",
+ journal = JMB,
+ volume = 371,
+ number = 4,
+ pages = "851–854",
+ year = 2007,
+ month = aug,
+ day = 24,
+ issn = "0022-2836",
+ doi = "10.1016/j.jmb.2007.06.015",
+ url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022283607007966",
+ keywords = "AFM",
+ keywords = "MD simulations",
+ keywords = "titin",
+ keywords = "forced unfolding",
+ keywords = "extracellular matrix",
+ abstract = "Steered molecular dynamics simulations have previously
+ been used to investigate the mechanical properties of the
+ extracellular matrix protein fibronectin. The simulations
+ suggest that the mechanical stability of the tenth type III
+ domain from fibronectin (FNfn10) is largely determined by a
+ number of critical hydrogen bonds in the peripheral
+ strands. Interestingly, the simulations predict that lowering
+ the pH from 7 to ∼4.7 will increase the mechanical stability
+ of FNfn10 significantly (by ∼33 %) due to the protonation of a
+ few key acidic residues in the A and B strands. To test this
+ simulation prediction, we used single-molecule atomic force
+ microscopy (AFM) to investigate the mechanical stability of
+ FNfn10 at neutral pH and at lower pH where these key residues
+ have been shown to be protonated. Our AFM experimental results
+ show no difference in the mechanical stability of FNfn10 at
+ these different pH values. These results suggest that some
+ simulations may overestimate the role played by electrostatic
+ interactions in determining the mechanical stability of
+ proteins."
+}
+
@article { nome07,
author = RNome #" and "# JZhao #" and "# WHoff #" and "# NScherer,
title = "Axis-dependent anisotropy in protein unfolding from integrated
configurations, of the order of a few kT, can reduce Levinthal's time
to a biologically significant size."
}
-