What macromolecular crowding can do to a protein

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 23090-23140

  Kuznetsova, Irina M ^a,b   Turoverov, Konstantin K ^a,b   Uversky, Vladimir N ^a,c,d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTATION   (Russian Federation)

^e KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Excluded volume; Intrinsically disordered protein; Macromolecular crowding; Protein aggregation; Protein folding; Protein function; Protein structure; Protein protein interaction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MACROMOLECULAR CROWDING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY;

PROTEIN; PROTEIN AGGREGATE;

PROTEIN AGGREGATES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEINS;

EID: 84917709250     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms151223090     Document Type: Review

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