Macromolecular Crowding Enhances Thermal Stability of Rabbit Muscle Creatine Kinase

Tsinghua Science and Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 454-459

  Zhu, Jiang ^a   He, Huawei ^a   Li, Sen ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

dextran; excluded volume effect; molecular crowding; thermal stability

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CURVES (ROAD); DICHROISM; GLUCOSE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MACROMOLECULES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PROTEIN FOLDING; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; SYSTEM STABILITY; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CIRCULAR-DICHROISM (CD) SPECTRA; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CREATINE KINASE; EXCLUDED VOLUME; IN-VIVO; LEAST-SQUARES METHOD (LSM); LOWER CONCENTRATIONS; PROTEIN STABILITY; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; THERMAL STABILITY; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31); TRANSITION CURVES; TRANSITION TEMPERATURES; TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY; TWO STATE MODELS; ULTRAVIOLET (UV);

DEXTRAN;

EID: 47649097660     PISSN: 10070214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1007-0214(08)70073-7     Document Type: Article

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