How crowded is the prokaryotic cytoplasm?

FEBS Letters

Volumn 587, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 2094-2098

  Spitzer, Jan ^a   Poolman, Bert ^b  

^a Mallard Creek Polymers Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bio macromolecular clustering; Cell envelope; Coccoid cellular model; Crowding in vivo; Cytoplasm; Cytosol; Diffusion; Localization; Nucleoid; Prokaryotic cell; Vectorial transport

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOGENESIS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CROWDING; CYTOPLASM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LONGEVITY; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTIC CELL; RIBOSOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

COCCOIDEA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84879693202     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.05.051     Document Type: Article

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