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A facile way to tune mechanical properties of artificial elastomeric proteins-based hydrogels

scientific article published on 15 May 2012

A force-spectroscopy-based single-molecule metal-binding assay

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

An Injectable Self-Healing Protein Hydrogel with Multiple Dissipation Modes and Tunable Dynamic Response

scientific article published on 08 October 2019

Atomic force microscopy reveals parallel mechanical unfolding pathways of T4 lysozyme: evidence for a kinetic partitioning mechanism.

scholarly article

Atomic force microscopy reveals the mechanical design of a modular protein.

scientific article published on June 2000

Atomic levers control pyranose ring conformations.

scientific article

Chair-boat transitions in single polysaccharide molecules observed with force-ramp AFM.

scientific article

Changes in Structural-Mechanical Properties and Degradability of Collagen during Aging-associated Modifications

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Chemical, physical and morphological properties of bacterial biofilms affect survival of encased Campylobacter jejuni F38011 under aerobic stress

scientific article

Configurational entropy modulates the mechanical stability of protein GB1.

scientific article

Construction and characterization of kilobasepair densely labeled peptide-DNA.

scientific article published on 7 October 2014

Decorating a Blank Slate Protein Hydrogel: A General and Robust Approach for Functionalizing Protein Hydrogels

scientific article

Decorating protein hydrogels reversibly enables dynamic presentation and release of functional protein ligands on protein hydrogels

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Design of a high-quality optical conjugate structure in optical tweezers

scientific article published on 01 February 2015

Designed biomaterials to mimic the mechanical properties of muscles.

scientific article published on May 2010

Designing redox potential-controlled protein switches based on mutually exclusive proteins

scientific article published on August 2012

Direct Measurements of the Mechanical Stability of Zinc-Thiolate Bonds in Rubredoxin by Single-Molecule Atomic Force Microscopy

scientific article published on September 20, 2011

Direct Observation of the Reversible Two-State Unfolding and Refolding of an α/β Protein by Single-Molecule Atomic Force Microscopy

scientific article published in July 2015

Direct monitoring of equilibrium protein folding-unfolding by atomic force microscopy: pushing the limit

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Direct observation of markovian behavior of the mechanical unfolding of individual proteins.

scientific article published on 28 March 2008

Direct observation of the fast and robust folding of a slipknotted protein by optical tweezers

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Direct observation of tug-of-war during the folding of a mutually exclusive protein

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Domain insertion effectively regulates the mechanical unfolding hierarchy of elastomeric proteins: toward engineering multifunctional elastomeric proteins

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Dynamic protein hydrogels with reversibly tunable stiffness regulate human lung fibroblast spreading reversibly

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Dynamics of Protein Folding and Cofactor Binding Monitored by Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy

scientific article published on October 19, 2011

Easyworm: an open-source software tool to determine the mechanical properties of worm-like chains

scientific article published on 10 July 2014

Effects of cysteine proteases on the structural and mechanical properties of collagen fibers.

scientific article published on 7 January 2013

Engineered bi-histidine metal chelation sites map the structure of the mechanical unfolding transition state of an elastomeric protein domain GB1.

scientific article published on August 2012

Engineered elastomeric proteins with dual elasticity can be controlled by a molecular regulator

scientific article published on 29 June 2008

Engineering Protein Hydrogels Using SpyCatcher-SpyTag Chemistry

scientific article published on 31 July 2016

Engineering Protein-Clay Nanosheets Composite Hydrogels with Designed Arginine-Rich Proteins

scientific article published on 23 May 2019

Engineering protein polymers of ultrahigh molecular weight via supramolecular polymerization: towards mimicking the giant muscle protein titin

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

Engineering proteins with novel mechanical properties by recombination of protein fragments

scientific article published in August 2006

Engineering proteins with tailored nanomechanical properties: a single molecule approach.

scientific article published on 21 September 2007

Engineering tandem modular protein based reversible hydrogels.

scientific article published on 3 July 2008

Facile method of constructing polyproteins for single-molecule force spectroscopy studies

scientific article published on 12 April 2011

Fingerprinting polysaccharides with single-molecule atomic force microscopy

scientific article

Force spectroscopy studies on protein-ligand interactions: a single protein mechanics perspective

scientific article published on 18 April 2014

Force-clamp spectroscopy monitors the folding trajectory of a single protein

scientific article published in March 2004

Force-induced chemical reactions on the metal centre in a single metalloprotein molecule

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

Forced protein unfolding leads to highly elastic and tough protein hydrogels

scientific article

High intrinsic mechanical flexibility of mouse prion nanofibrils revealed by measurements of axial and radial Young's moduli

scientific article published on 06 March 2014

Highly Covalent Ferric−Thiolate Bonds Exhibit Surprisingly Low Mechanical Stability

scientific article published on 08 April 2011

Highly ordered protein nanorings designed by accurate control of glutathione S-transferase self-assembly

scientific article published on 19 July 2013

How do chemical denaturants affect the mechanical folding and unfolding of proteins?

scientific article published on 15 October 2007

Hydrogels Constructed from Engineered Proteins.

scientific article published on 28 December 2015

Hydrogen bond strength modulates the mechanical strength of ferric-thiolate bonds in rubredoxin

scientific article published on 24 February 2012

Improved single molecule force spectroscopy using micromachined cantilevers

scientific article published on 01 April 2014

In Situ Phase Transition of Elastin-Like Polypeptide Chains Regulates Thermoresponsive Properties of Elastomeric Protein-Based Hydrogels

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Kinetic partitioning mechanism governs the folding of the third FnIII domain of tenascin-C: evidence at the single-molecule level

scientific article published on 03 August 2011

Measuring "unmeasurable" folding kinetics of proteins by single-molecule force spectroscopy

scientific article published on 05 August 2010

Mechanical Anisotropy in GNNQQNY Amyloid Crystals

scientific article published on 15 August 2018

Mechanical Unfolding Pathway of the High-Potential Iron-Sulfur Protein Revealed by Single-Molecule Atomic Force Microscopy: Toward a General Unfolding Mechanism for Iron-sulfur Proteins

scientific article published on 02 October 2018

Mechanical Unfolding and Folding of a Complex Slipknot Protein Probed by Using Optical Tweezers

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Mechanical design of proteins studied by single-molecule force spectroscopy and protein engineering.

scientific article

Mechanical design of the first proximal Ig domain of human cardiac titin revealed by single molecule force spectroscopy

scientific article published in November 2003

Mechanical design of the third FnIII domain of tenascin-C.

scientific article

Mechanically tightening a protein slipknot into a trefoil knot.

scientific article published on 13 August 2014

Mechanically untying a protein slipknot: multiple pathways revealed by force spectroscopy and steered molecular dynamics simulations.

scientific article

Modeling the Hydrolysis of Iron-Sulfur Clusters

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Modulating the mechanical stability of extracellular matrix protein tenascin-C in a controlled and reversible fashion.

scientific article published on 27 May 2009

Molecular calipers for highly precise and accurate measurements of single-protein mechanics.

scientific article

Multiple conformations of PEVK proteins detected by single-molecule techniques

scientific article

Nano-level position resolution for particle tracking in digital in-line holographic microscopy

scientific article published on 3 August 2015

Nanomechanical properties of tenascin-X revealed by single-molecule force spectroscopy

scientific article published on 27 November 2008

Nonmechanical protein can have significant mechanical stability

scientific article published in January 2006

PEVK Domain of Titin: An Entropic Spring with Actin-Binding Properties

article

Phenotypic effects of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome-associated mutation on the FnIII domain of tenascin-X.

scientific article

Polyprotein of GB1 is an ideal artificial elastomeric protein

scientific article published on 21 January 2007

Protein Mechanics: From Single Molecules to Functional Biomaterials

scientific article published on October 19, 2010

Protein-protein interaction regulates proteins' mechanical stability.

scientific article published on 28 March 2008

Pulling genetic RNA out of tobacco mosaic virus using single-molecule force spectroscopy

scientific article published in August 2010

Recombination of protein fragments: a promising approach toward engineering proteins with novel nanomechanical properties

scientific article

Reverse engineering of the giant muscle protein titin

scientific article published in Nature

Reversible Unfolding and Folding of the Metalloprotein Ferredoxin Revealed by Single-Molecule Atomic Force Microscopy.

scientific article

Reversible unfolding-refolding of rubredoxin: a single-molecule force spectroscopy study

scientific article published on 14 October 2014

Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy Reveals the Mechanical Design Governing the Efficient Translocation of the Bacterial Toxin Protein RTX

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Single molecule force spectroscopy reveals a weakly populated microstate of the FnIII domains of tenascin

scientific article published on 27 June 2006

Single molecule force spectroscopy reveals critical roles of hydrophobic core packing in determining the mechanical stability of protein GB1

scientific article published on 06 August 2012

Single molecule force spectroscopy reveals engineered metal chelation is a general approach to enhance mechanical stability of proteins.

scholarly article

Single molecule force spectroscopy reveals that a two-coordinate ferric site is critical for the folding of holo-rubredoxin

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Single molecule force spectroscopy reveals that electrostatic interactions affect the mechanical stability of proteins

scientific article published on March 2011

Single molecule force spectroscopy reveals that iron is released from the active site of rubredoxin by a stochastic mechanism.

scientific article published on 14 May 2013

Single molecule force spectroscopy reveals that the oxidation state of cobalt ions plays an important role in enhancing the mechanical stability of proteins

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

Single molecule force spectroscopy reveals the molecular mechanical anisotropy of the FeS4 metal center in rubredoxin.

scientific article published on 14 November 2013

Single-Molecule Force-Clamp Spectroscopy: Dwell Time Analysis and Practical Considerations

scientific article published on November 30, 2010

Single-molecule force spectroscopy reveals a mechanically stable protein fold and the rational tuning of its mechanical stability.

scholarly article

Single-molecule force spectroscopy study on the mechanism of RNA disassembly in tobacco mosaic virus.

scientific article published on December 2013

Single-molecule-level evidence for the osmophobic effect

article

Stabilization provided by neighboring strands is critical for the mechanical stability of proteins.

scientific article published on 3 July 2008

Staphylokinase Displays Surprisingly Low Mechanical Stability

scientific article published on 31 December 2016

Sub-angstrom conformational changes of a single molecule captured by AFM variance analysis

scientific article published on 24 February 2006

Tandem modular protein-based hydrogels constructed using a novel two-component approach.

scientific article

The Monolayer Behavior of Amphiphilic Polymer and Heterostructure of Polymer LB Film/CdS Clusters

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

The force-driven conformations of heparin studied with single molecule force microscopy.

scientific article

The mechanical stability of ubiquitin is linkage dependent

scientific article published on 17 August 2003

The prion protein ligand, stress-inducible phosphoprotein 1, regulates amyloid-β oligomer toxicity.

scientific article published in October 2013

Towards constructing extracellular matrix-mimetic hydrogels: an elastic hydrogel constructed from tandem modular proteins containing tenascin FnIII domains

scientific article

Twist and Shout: Single-Molecule Mechanochemistry.

scientific article published on 12 January 2017

Ultrafast folding kinetics and cooperativity of villin headpiece in single-molecule force spectroscopy.

scientific article published on 21 October 2013

Yellow fluorescent protein-based label-free tension sensors for monitoring integrin tension

scientific article published on 16 April 2020