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Microfluidic Mixers for Studying Protein Folding
Published on: April 10, 2012
Experimental and theoretical studies of mechanical unfolding of different proteins
A V Glyakina1, N K Balabaev, O V Galzitskaya
1Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russia.
Abstract:
Mechanical properties of proteins are important for a wide range of biological processes including cell adhesion, muscle contraction, and protein translocation across biological membranes. It is necessary to reveal how proteins achieve their required mechanical stability under natural conditions in order to understand the biological processes and also to use the knowledge for constructing new biomaterials for medical and industrial purposes. In this connection, it is important to know how a protein will behave in response to various impacts. Theoretical and experimental works on mechanical unfolding of globular proteins will be considered in detail in this review.
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