Over the recent decades, protein oxidation in muscle foods has gained increasing research
interests as it is known that protein oxidation can affect eating quality and nutritional value of …

Biochemical processes take place in heterogeneous and highly volume-occupied or
crowded environments that can considerably influence the reactivity and distribution of …

Classical biochemistry is founded on several assumptions valid in dilute aqueous solutions
that are often extended without question to the interior milieu of intact cells. In the first section …

Recent studies have led to increased appreciation of the influence of excluded volume in
solutions of high total macromolecular content ('macromolecular crowding') upon the various …

Nonspecific interactions between individual macro-molecules and their immediate
surroundings (background interactions') within a medium as heterogeneous and highly …

The organization and biophysical properties of the cytosol implicitly govern molecular
interactions within cells. However, little is known about mechanisms by which cells regulate …

The cellular interior is composed of a variety of microenvironments defined by distinct local
compositions and composition-dependent intermolecular interactions. We review the …

Results of experimental studies published since the last major review of excluded volume
effects in biopolymer solutions in 1993 add to our appreciation of the scope and magnitude …

Four types of environmental effects that can affect macromolecular reactions in a living cell
are defined: nonspecific intermolecular interactions, side reactions, partitioning between …

Recent measurements of sedimentation equilibrium and sedimentation velocity have shown
that the bacterial cell division protein FtsZ self-associates to form indefinitely long rod-like …