Synthetic crowding agent dextran causes excluded volume interactions exclusively to tracer protein apoazurin

FEBS Letters

Volumn 588, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 811-814

  Christiansen, Alexander ^a   Wittung Stafshede, Pernilla ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attractive interaction; Azurin; Crowding agent; Excluded volume; Macromolecular crowding; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DEXTRAN; PROTEIN APOAZURIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; UBIQUITINATION;

ATTRACTIVE INTERACTION; AZURIN; CROWDING AGENT; EXCLUDED VOLUME; MACROMOLECULAR CROWDING; SPECTROSCOPY;

APOPROTEINS; AZURIN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DEXTRANS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84896699919     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2014.01.043     Document Type: Article

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