The physics of pulling polyproteins: a review of single molecule force spectroscopy using the AFM to study protein unfolding

ML Hughes, L Dougan - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the most exciting developments in the field of biological physics in recent years is the
ability to manipulate single molecules and probe their properties and function. Since its …

Peptide kinetics from picoseconds to microseconds using boxed molecular dynamics: Power law rate coefficients in cyclisation reactions

DV Shalashilin, GS Beddard, E Paci… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular dynamics (MD) methods are increasingly widespread, but simulation of rare
events in complex molecular systems remains a challenge. We recently introduced the …

Antigen–antibody biorecognition events as discriminated by noise analysis of force spectroscopy curves

AR Bizzarri, S Cannistraro - Nanotechnology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Atomic force spectroscopy is able to extract kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of
biomolecular complexes provided that the registered unbinding force curves could be …

Effect of external pulling forces on the length distribution of peptides

M Batchelor, J Gowdy, E Paci - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General Subjects, 2015 - Elsevier
Background The distribution of the length of a polypeptide, or that of the distance between
any two of its atoms, is an important property as it can be analytically or numerically …