On the role of the macromolecular phase transitions in biology in response to change in solution volume or macromolecular composition: Action as an entropy buffer

Biophysical Chemistry

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 233-248

  Hall, Damien ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell volume; Cytoskeleton; Entropy buffer; Non ideality

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BUFFER; PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CELL VOLUME; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYTOSKELETON; ENTROPY; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

BUFFERS; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEINS; SOLUBILITY; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 0037008414     PISSN: 03014622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4622(02)00072-8     Document Type: Article

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