What macromolecular crowding can do to a protein

IM Kuznetsova, KK Turoverov, VN Uversky - International journal of …, 2014 - mdpi.com
The intracellular environment represents an extremely crowded milieu, with a limited amount
of free water and an almost complete lack of unoccupied space. Obviously, slightly salted …

Models of macromolecular crowding effects and the need for quantitative comparisons with experiment

AH Elcock - Current opinion in structural biology, 2010 - Elsevier
In recent years significant effort has been devoted to exploring the potential effects of
macromolecular crowding on protein folding and association phenomena. Theoretical …

Hydrogen bonding steers the product selectivity of electrocatalytic CO reduction

J Li, X Li, CM Gunathunge… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The product selectivity of many heterogeneous electrocatalytic processes is profoundly
affected by the liquid side of the electrocatalytic interface. The electrocatalytic reduction of …

Macromolecular crowding remodels the energy landscape of a protein by favoring a more compact unfolded state

J Hong, LM Gierasch - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010 - ACS Publications
The interior of cells is highly crowded with macromolecules, which impacts all physiological
processes. To explore how macromolecular crowding may influence cellular protein folding …

Size-dependent studies of macromolecular crowding on the thermodynamic stability, structure and functional activity of proteins: in vitro and in silico approaches

S Shahid, MI Hassan, A Islam, F Ahmad - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background The environment inside cells in which proteins fold and function are quite
different from that of the dilute buffer solutions often used during in vitro experiments. The …

Crowders and cosolvents—major contributors to the cellular milieu and efficient means to counteract environmental stresses

M Gao, C Held, S Patra, L Arns, G Sadowski… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The free energy and conformational landscape of biomolecular systems as well as
biochemical reactions depend not only on temperature and pressure, but also on the …

Temperature dependence of protein folding kinetics in living cells

M Guo, Y Xu, M Gruebele - Proceedings of the National …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
We measure the stability and folding rate of a mutant of the enzyme phosphoglycerate
kinase (PGK) inside bone tissue cells as a function of temperature from 38 to 48° C. To …

Protein stability and folding kinetics in the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum of eucaryotic cells

A Dhar, K Girdhar, D Singh, H Gelman, S Ebbinghaus… - Biophysical journal, 2011 - cell.com
We measure the stability and folding relaxation rate of phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK)
Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) constructs localized in the nucleus or in the …

Spectroscopic studies on binding of ibuprofen and drotaverine with bovine serum albumin

E Negrea, P Oancea, A Leonties, UA Maria… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The interaction between ibuprofen (analgesic) and drotaverine (smooth muscle relaxant)
drugs with bovine serum albumin (BSA) was investigated using both experimental (UV–Vis …

Cell-free protein expression under macromolecular crowding conditions

X Ge, D Luo, J Xu - PLoS One, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Cell-free protein expression (CFPE) comprised of in vitro transcription and
translation is currently manipulated in relatively dilute solutions, in which the …