Osmotic pressure induced coupling between cooperativity and stability of a helix-coil transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Badasyan, Artem ^a   Tonoyan, Shushanik ^b   Giacometti, Achille ^c   Podgornik, Rudolf ^d   Parsegian, V Adrian ^e   Mamasakhlisov, Yevgeni ^b   Morozov, Vladimir ^b  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

^c CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-SOLUTES; COOPERATIVITY; ENERGY COST; HELICAL STATE; HELIX FORMATION; HELIX-COIL TRANSITIONS; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; OSMOTIC ACTION; POLY (LGLUTAMIC ACID); REPEATING UNIT; SOLVENT INTERACTIONS; THREE PARAMETERS;

AMINO ACIDS; COST ACCOUNTING; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE;

OSMOSIS;

EID: 84864650419     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.068101     Document Type: Article

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