Crowding effects on diffusion in solutions and cells

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2008, Pages 247-263

  Dix, James A ^a   Verkman, A S ^b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous diffusion; Brownian diffusion; Cell membrane; Cytoplasm; Molecular crowding

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SOLVENT; BIOPOLYMER; LIPID;

ALGORITHM; ANOMALOUS DIFFUSION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BROWNIAN DIFFUSION; CELL; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; MOLECULAR CROWDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SOLUTE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; LIQUID; PHYSICS; PREDICTION; SIMULATION;

BIOPOLYMERS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 48249124302     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.37.032807.125824     Document Type: Review

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