Influence of crowded cellular environments on protein folding, binding, and oligomerization: Biological consequences and potentials of atomistic modeling

FEBS Letters

Volumn 587, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1053-1061

  Zhou, Huan Xiang ^a  

^a Florida State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Macromolecular crowding; Postprocessing; Protein aggregation; Protein binding; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

OLIGOMER; PROTEIN;

ATOMISTIC MODELING; CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR ENVIRONMENT; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEINS; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 84876034428     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.01.064     Document Type: Review

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