Simulations of Macromolecules in Protective and Denaturing Osmolytes: Properties of Mixed Solvent Systems and Their Effects on Water and Protein Structure and Dynamics

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 428, Issue , 2007, Pages 373-396

  Beck, David A C ^a   Bennion, Brian J ^a   Alonso, Darwin O V ^a   Daggett, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN INHIBITOR; CHYMOTRYPSIN INHIBITOR 2; COSOLVENT; INORGANIC SALT; ION; LIPID; NUCLEIC ACID; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OSMOLYTE; PROTEIN; SOLVENT; TRIMETHYLAMINE OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA; WATER; METHYLAMINE; PEPTIDE; TRIMETHYLOXAMINE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; DENATURATION; HYDRATION; HYDROGEN BOND; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SOLUBILITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG EFFECT; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROTEIN DENATURATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROGEN BONDING; METHYLAMINES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PEPTIDES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEINS; SOLVENTS; UREA; WATER;

EID: 35748930873     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(07)28022-X     Document Type: Chapter

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