Molecular crowding enhances native state stability and refolding rates of globular proteins

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 4753-4758

  Cheung, Margaret S ^a   Klimov, Dmitri ^a   Thirumalai, D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Confinement effects; Depletion interaction; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

GLOBULAR PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; KINETICS; MOLECULAR CROWDING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 16344389134     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0409630102     Document Type: Article

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