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Paul Matsudaira.
Muso, Taro M. (Taro Michael)
Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
2008-02-12T16:48:18Z
2008-02-12T16:48:18Z
2007
2007
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39735
181101692
Thesis (S.M.)--Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-141).
Inquiry into intracellular and cytoskeletal mechanics requires an intracellular mechanical sensor to verify models of sub-cellular structure dynamics. To this end, the green fluorescent protein (GFP) is considered as a mechanical sensor candidate with many desirable characteristics. Implicit solvent molecular dynamics CHARMM simulations demonstrated details inaccessible by AFM and OT methods, such as the linkage dependency of fluorophore environment changes and the energy exchanges between protein components during protein unfolding. Theoretical considerations and in vitro experiments explored the parameters important to GFP conjugation by N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) ester chemistry, and the complexities associated with a polymer approach to a controlled distribution of force across fluorescent proteins in a polyacrylamide (PAM) gel.
by Taro M. Muso.
S.M.
141 p.
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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