Protein folding requires crowd control in a simulated cell

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 397, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1329-1338

  Jefferys, Benjamin R ^a   Kelley, Lawrence A ^a   Sternberg, Michael J E ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Macromolecular crowding; Protein aggregation; Protein expression; Protein misfolding; Protein structure prediction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROWDING; HYDROPHOBICITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 77950518894     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.01.074     Document Type: Article

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