Using Molecular Mechanics to Predict Bulk Material Properties of Fibronectin Fibers

Nonlinear material behaviour of spider silk yields robust webs

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Flaw Tolerance of Nuclear Intermediate Filament Lamina under Extreme Mechanical Deformation

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Protein unfolding accounts for the unusual mechanical behavior of fibrin networks

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A micropatterning and image processing approach to simplify measurement of cellular traction forces

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Contribution of Unfolding and Intermolecular Architecture to Fibronectin Fiber Extensibility

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Deep ultraviolet mapping of intracellular protein and nucleic acid in femtograms per pixel

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Probing the Folded State of Fibronectin Type III Domains in Stretched Fibrils by Measuring Buried Cysteine Accessibility

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Assembly of Fibronectin Extracellular Matrix

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Evidence that αC Region Is Origin of Low Modulus, High Extensibility, and Strain Stiffening in Fibrin Fibers

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Stiffening of Individual Fibrin Fibers Equitably Distributes Strain and Strengthens Networks

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Periodic beaded-filament assembly of fibronectin on negatively charged surface

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Molecular and Nanostructural Mechanisms of Deformation, Strength and Toughness of Spider Silk Fibrils

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Stretching fibronectin fibres disrupts binding of bacterial adhesins by physically destroying an epitope

(2010) Mamta Chabria et al.   Nature Communications

Stretched Extracellular Matrix Proteins Turn Fouling and Are Functionally Rescued by the Chaperones Albumin and Casein

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Fibronectin forms the most extensible biological fibers displaying switchable force-exposed cryptic binding sites

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Multiscale Mechanics of Fibrin Polymer: Gel Stretching with Protein Unfolding and Loss of Water

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