Sedimentation equilibrium in a solution containing an arbitrary number of solute species at arbitrary concentrations: Theory and application to concentrated solutions of ribonuclease

Biophysical Chemistry

Volumn 108, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 89-100

  Zorrilla, Silvia ^a   Jiménez, Mercedes ^b   Lillo, Pilar ^a   Rivas, Germán ^b   Minton, Allen P ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Reversible association; Ribonuclease; Thermodynamic nonideality

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; OLIGOMER; PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE A;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION; SOLUTE; SPECIES; STATISTICAL MODEL; TECHNIQUE; THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ATTENTION; DIMERIZATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASE, PANCREATIC; SOLUTIONS; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 1642285049     PISSN: 03014622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2003.10.012     Document Type: Article

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