Nonadditive effects of mixed crowding on protein stability

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 133-138

  Batra, Jyotica ^a   Xu, Ke ^a   Zhou, Huan Xiang ^a  

^a Florida State University   (United States)

Author keywords

FKBP; Macromolecular crowding; Mixed crowding; Protein folding; Protein stability

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; FICOLL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENERGY; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY;

DEXTRANS; FICOLL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; TACROLIMUS BINDING PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 70349310244     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22425     Document Type: Article

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