Macromolecular crowding perturbs protein refolding kinetics: Implications for folding inside the cell

EMBO Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 3870-3875

  Van Den Berg, Bert ^a,c   Wain, Rachel ^c   Dobson, Christopher M ^c   Ellis, R John ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Excluded volume; Ficoll; Hen lysozyme; Macromolecular crowding; Protein refolding kinetics

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CELL PROTEIN; FICOLL; LYSOZYME;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING;

BOVINAE;

EID: 0034254189     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.15.3870     Document Type: Article

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