Interpreting the effects of small uncharged solutes on protein-folding equilibria

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 30, Issue , 2001, Pages 271-306

  Davis Searles, P R ^a   Saunders, A J ^a   Erie, D A ^a   Winzor, D J ^a   Pielak, G J ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbohydrates; Molecular crowding; Nonideal solutions; Protein stability; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; POLYOL; PROTEIN; SUGAR;

COMPLEX FORMATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MODEL; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; SOLVATION; SURFACE TENSION; THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOPHYSICS; CARBOHYDRATES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSMOSIS; POLYMERS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034987618     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.30.1.271     Document Type: Review

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