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Mechanical unfolding of a β-barrel membrane protein by single-molecule force spectroscopy

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This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (B910202) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11672317, 31771015).

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  1. Shenzhen Baoan Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Jinan University, Shenzhen, 518101, China

    Hui Chen

  2. Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Hui Chen, Guangtao Song, Yong Zhang, Xinwei Zhang & Jizhong Lou

  3. National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Dongchun Ni & Yihua Huang

  4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100084, China

    Yihua Huang & Jizhong Lou

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Chen, H., Song, G., Zhang, Y. et al. Mechanical unfolding of a β-barrel membrane protein by single-molecule force spectroscopy. Sci. China Life Sci. 64, 334–336 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-019-1758-4

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