1. Preface

   Preface Pages: 7 - 8

2. Section: DNA, Chromatin and Chromosomes; Mechanics and imaging of single DNA molecules

   • M. Hegner
   • W. Grange

   OriginalPaper Pages: 367 - 375

3. Stretching and imaging single DNA molecules and chromatin

   • Jordanka Zlatanova
   • Sanford H. Leuba

   OriginalPaper Pages: 377 - 395

4. Optical tweezers stretching of chromatin

   • Lisa H. Pope
   • Martin L. Bennink
   • Jan Greve

   OriginalPaper Pages: 397 - 407

5. Micromechanical studies of mitotic chromosomes

   • M.G. Poirier
   • J.F. Marko

   OriginalPaper Pages: 409 - 431

6. Section: Elastic Invertebrate Muscle Proteins; Varieties of elastic protein in invertebrate muscles

   • Belinda Bullard
   • Wolfgang A. Linke
   • Kevin Leonard

   OriginalPaper Pages: 435 - 447

7. Single-molecule measurement of elasticity of Serine-, Glutamate- and Lysine-Rich repeats of invertebrate connectin reveals that its elasticity is caused entropically by random coil structure

   • Atsushi Fukuzawa
   • Michio Hiroshima
   • Sumiko Kimura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 449 - 453

8. Section: The Elastic Vertebrate Muscle Protein Titin; Titin as a modular spring: emerging mechanisms for elasticity control by titinin cardiac physiology and pathophysiology

   • Henk Granzier
   • Dietmar Labeit
   • Siegfried Labeit

   OriginalPaper Pages: 457 - 470

9. Species variations in cDNA sequence and exon splicing patterns in the extensible I-band region of cardiac titin: relation to passive tension

   • Marion L. Greaser
   • Mustapha Berri
   • Paul E. Mozdziak

   OriginalPaper Pages: 473 - 482

10. Cardiac titin: molecular basis of elasticity and cellular contribution to elastic and viscous stiffness components in myocardium

    • Wolfgang A. Linke
    • Julio M. Fernandez

    OriginalPaper Pages: 483 - 497

11. Stretching and visualizing titin molecules: combining structure, dynamics and mechanics

    • Miklós S. Z. Kellermayer
    • László Grama

    OriginalPaper Pages: 499 - 511

12. Unfolding of titin domains studied by molecular dynamics simulations

    • Mu Gao
    • Hui Lu
    • Klaus Schulten

    OriginalPaper Pages: 513 - 521

13. Section: Cytoskeletal Proteins; Mechanical response of single filamin A (ABP-280) molecules and its role in the actin cytoskeleton

    • Masahito Yamazaki
    • Shou Furuike
    • Tadanao Ito

    OriginalPaper Pages: 525 - 534

14. Mechanics of vimentin intermediate filaments

    • Ning Wang
    • Dimitrijie Stamenovic

    OriginalPaper Pages: 535 - 540

15. Section: Extracellular matrix proteins; Mechanics of elastin: molecular mechanism of biological elasticity and its relationship to contraction

    • D.W. Urry
    • T.M. Parker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 543 - 559

16. Molecular basis for the extensibility of elastin

    • Bin Li
    • Valerie Daggett

    OriginalPaper Pages: 561 - 573

17. Stretching fibronectin

    • Harold P. Erickson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 575 - 580

18. Fibrillin-rich microfibrils: elastic biopolymers of the extracellular matrix

    • C. M. Kielty
    • T. J. Wess
    • C. A. Shuttleworth

    OriginalPaper Pages: 581 - 596