Effects of macromolecular crowding on protein conformational changes

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 29-

  Dong, Hao ^a   Qin, Sanbo ^a   Zhou, Huan Xiang ^a  

^a Florida State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; MACROMOLECULES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; REACTION RATES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ADENYLATE KINASE; CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE; CROWDING EFFECTS; DECARBOXYLASES; MACROMOLECULAR CROWDING; PROTEIN DISULPHIDE-ISOMERASE; TRANSITION RATES; TRP REPRESSOR; TWO-STATE; YEAST PROTEINS;

CONFORMATIONS;

ADENYLATE KINASE; DIADENOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; APOPROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

APOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78049249046     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000833     Document Type: Article

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