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Sterling Paramore1, Gary S Ayton, Dina T Mirijanian, Gregory A Voth.
Abstract
Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations were used to calculate the elastic properties of a spectrin repeat unit. A contiguous alpha-helical linker was constructed by employing periodic boundary conditions, allowing a novel scheme for evaluating the thermodynamic force as a function of extension. By measuring the force-extension response under small extensions, spectrin was observed to behave primarily as an elastic material with a spring constant of 1700 +/- 100 pN/nm. The implications of this spring constant, in terms of the properties of the spectrin tetramer, are also discussed.Mesh:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16227506 PMCID: PMC1367040 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.066969
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biophys J ISSN: 0006-3495 Impact factor: 4.033