Effect of Macromolecular Crowding on Protein Folding Dynamics at the Secondary Structure Level

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 393, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 227-236

  Mukherjee, Smita ^a   Waegele, Matthias M ^a   Chowdhury, Pramit ^a   Guo, Lin ^a   Gai, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

confinement; helix coil transition; macromolecular crowding; protein folding; hairpin folding

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN 70; FICOLL; POLYMER;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; THERMOSTABILITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 70349232202     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.08.016     Document Type: Article

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