Diffusion, crowding & protein stability in a dynamic molecular model of the bacterial cytoplasm

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  McGuffee, Sean R ^a,b   Elcock, Adrian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIAL CYTOPLASM; BROWNIAN DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS; DETAILED MODELS; DYNAMIC MOLECULAR MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; PROTEIN STABILITY; TEST SYSTEMS; TRANSLATIONAL DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT;

MACROMOLECULES;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CALCULATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 77950792003     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000694     Document Type: Article

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