Methods of Changing Biopolymer Volume Fraction and Cytoplasmic Solute Concentrations for In Vivo Biophysical Studies

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 428, Issue , 2007, Pages 487-504

  Konopka, Michael C ^a   Weisshaar, James C ^a   Record Jr , M Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; BIOPOLYMER; CHOLINE; ECTOINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCEROL; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; POTASSIUM ION; PROLINE; PUTRESCINE; TREHALOSE; UREA;

BIOPHYSICS; CELL LEVEL; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; MACROMOLECULE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; OSMOTIC STRESS; PLASMOLYSIS; POLYMER VOLUME FRACTION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; SOLUTE; TITRIMETRY; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; OSMOLARITY; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DENATURATION;

BIOPHYSICS; BIOPOLYMERS; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROTEIN DENATURATION; UREA;

EID: 35748977127     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(07)28027-9     Document Type: Chapter

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