Salting-in the microbial cytoplasm

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 720-722

  Braun, F N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Compatible osmolytes; Crowding; Osmoregulatory thermodynamics; Phase separation; Solubility; Statistical mechanics

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; DNA; ECTOINE; POTASSIUM; PROLINE; SODIUM; WATER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYTOPLASM; DNA BINDING; HYDRATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; OSMOREGULATION; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIA; BETAINE; CYTOPLASM; OSMOSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 31444451662     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

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