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SUBMITTER: Schlierf M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1367298 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schlierf Michael M Rief Matthias M
Biophysical journal 20051216 4
The protein folding process is described as diffusion on a high-dimensional energy landscape. Experimental data showing details of the underlying energy surface are essential to understanding folding. So far in single-molecule mechanical unfolding experiments a simplified model assuming a force-independent transition state has been used to extract such information. Here we show that this so-called Bell model, although fitting well to force velocity data, fails to reproduce full unfolding force d ...[more]