Is the depletion force entropic? Molecular crowding beyond steric interactions

Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-10

  Sapir, Liel ^a   Harries, Daniel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

"Soft" interactions; Cosolute effects; Depletion forces; Kirkwood Buff solution theory; Molecular crowding; Osmolytes; Preferential interaction; Protein folding; Steric repulsions

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

COSOLUTE EFFECTS; DEPLETION FORCE; MOLECULAR CROWDING; OSMOLYTES; PREFERENTIAL INTERACTION; SOLUTION THEORY; STERIC REPULSIONS;

MACROMOLECULES;

ARTICLE; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; FORCE; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR CROWDING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; POLYMERIZATION; PREDICTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84922778919     PISSN: 13590294     EISSN: 18790399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2014.12.003     Document Type: Review

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