Macromolecular crowding: Obvious but underappreciated

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 597-604

  Ellis, R John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; CHAPERONE; OLIGOMER; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CROWDING; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; IN VITRO STUDY; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0035478585     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-0004(01)01938-7     Document Type: Review

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