Life in a crowded world

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-27

  Rivas, Germán ^a   Ferrone, Frank ^b   Herzfeld, Judith ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biochemical rates and equilibria; Crowding; Macromolecular interactions; Protein folding and assembly; Volume exclusion

Indexed keywords

DNA; HEMOGLOBIN; PROTEIN;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENTROPY; HUMAN; MACROMOLECULE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPAIN; WORKSHOP;

CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL SIZE; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 1242321063     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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