Life in a crowded world: Workshop on the Biological Implications of Macromolecular Crowding

G Rivas, F Ferrone, J Herzfeld - EMBO reports, 2004 - embopress.org
Macromolecules are present as soluble species and/or structural arrays at total
concentrations of up to several hundred grams per litre in essentially all physiological …

Crowding and the polymerization of sickle hemoglobin

FA Ferrone, MA Rotter - Journal of Molecular Recognition, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Under physiological conditions, sickle hemoglobin, a natural mutant of human hemoglobin A
with a surface hydrophobic valine in place of a negatively charged glutamic acid …

[HTML][HTML] Metastable mesoscopic clusters in solutions of sickle-cell hemoglobin

W Pan, O Galkin, L Filobelo, RL Nagel, PG Vekilov - Biophysical journal, 2007 - cell.com
Sickle cell hemoglobin (HbS) is a mutant, whose polymerization while in deoxy state in the
venous circulation underlies the debilitating sickle cell anemia. It has been suggested that …

Molecular Serum Albumin Unmask Nanobio Properties of Molecular Graphenes in Shungite Carbon Nanoparticles

S Rozhkov, A Goryunov, N Rozhkova - International Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Serum albumin is a popular macromolecule for studying the effect of proteins on the
colloidal stability of nanoparticle (NP) dispersions, as well as the protein–nanoparticle …

Interactions between sickle hemoglobin fibers

CW Jones, JC Wang, FA Ferrone, RW Briehl… - Faraday …, 2003 - pubs.rsc.org
We report on observations of “zippering” that occurs when two sickle hemoglobin fibers
come together side by side. A transient Y-shaped object is formed which “zips” closed. We …

Universal metastability of sickle hemoglobin polymerization

W Weng, A Aprelev, RW Briehl, FA Ferrone - Journal of molecular biology, 2008 - Elsevier
Sickle hemoglobin (HbS) polymerization occurs when the concentration of deoxyHbS
exceeds a well-defined solubility. In experiments using sickle hemoglobin droplets …

Distribution functions for reversibly self-assembling spherocylinders

EM Kramer, J Herzfeld - Physical Review E, 1998 - APS
We consider an equilibrium solution of hard spheres undergoing reversible self-assembly
into spherocylinders. Our main interest is the distribution of cylinder orientations and lengths …

Stable, metastable, and supercritical phases in solutions of globular proteins between upper and lower denaturation temperatures

SP Rozhkov, AS Goryunov - Biophysics, 2017 - Springer
The temperature trends of the standard thermodynamic functions of the native and
denatured protein in solution are considered within the concept of excess mixing functions. It …

Возможная роль полиморф глобулярного белка, индуцируемых взаимодействием с ионами солей, в фазовых переходах типа жидкость-жидкость

СП Рожков - АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ВОПРОСЫ БИОЛОГИЧЕСКОЙ …, 2021 - elibrary.ru
Рассматриваются фазовые переходы типа жидкость-жидкость (LL) в водно-солевых
дисперсиях глобулярных белков в нативных состояниях (N*, N) в интервале температур …

A possible role of salt-induced intermediates in the liquid-liquid phase transitions of globular protein dispersions

SP Rozhkov, AS Goryunov - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.03812, 2022 - arxiv.org
A probable model of the liquid-liquid (LL) type phase transitions in water-salt dispersions of
native (N*, N) globular proteins in the temperature range between thermal (D*) and cold (D) …