Soft interactions and crowding

Biophysical Reviews

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 187-194

  Sarkar, Mohona ^a   Li, Conggang ^c   Pielak, Gary J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Crowding; Excluded volume; Osmolytes; Protein stability; Second virial coefficient; Synthetic polymers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877014249     PISSN: 18672450     EISSN: 18672469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12551-013-0104-4     Document Type: Review

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