Macromolecular crowding and confinement: biochemical, biophysical, and potential physiological consequences

HX Zhou, G Rivas, AP Minton - Annu. Rev. Biophys., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Expected and observed effects of volume exclusion on the free energy of rigid and flexible
macromolecules in crowded and confined systems, and consequent effects of crowding and …

Weak chemical interactions that drive protein evolution: crowding, sticking, and quinary structure in folding and function

D Guin, M Gruebele - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
In recent years, better instrumentation and greater computing power have enabled the
imaging of elusive biomolecule dynamics in cells, driving many advances in understanding …

Diffusion, crowding & protein stability in a dynamic molecular model of the bacterial cytoplasm

SR McGuffee, AH Elcock - PLoS computational biology, 2010 - journals.plos.org
A longstanding question in molecular biology is the extent to which the behavior of
macromolecules observed in vitro accurately reflects their behavior in vivo. A number of …

Evolution of mammalian diving capacity traced by myoglobin net surface charge

S Mirceta, AV Signore, JM Burns, AR Cossins… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Introduction Evolution of extended breath-hold endurance enables the exploitation of the
aquatic niche by numerous mammalian lineages and is accomplished by elevated body …

Analysis of the size dependence of macromolecular crowding shows that smaller is better

KA Sharp - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The aqueous milieu inside cells contains as much as 30–40% dissolved protein and RNA by
volume. This large concentration of macromolecules is expected to cause significant …

Toward an understanding of biochemical equilibria within living cells

G Rivas, AP Minton - Biophysical reviews, 2018 - Springer
Four types of environmental effects that can affect macromolecular reactions in a living cell
are defined: nonspecific intermolecular interactions, side reactions, partitioning between …

Forced degradation studies of biopharmaceuticals: Selection of stress conditions

E Tamizi, A Jouyban - European Journal of Pharmaceutics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Stability studies under stress conditions or forced degradation studies play an important role
in different phases of development and production of biopharmaceuticals and biological …

[HTML][HTML] Formation of protein complexes in crowded environments–from in vitro to in vivo

Y Phillip, G Schreiber - FEBS letters, 2013 - Elsevier
Traditionally, biochemical studies are performed in dilute homogenous solutions, which are
very different from the dense mixture of molecules found in cells. Thus, the physiological …

Attractive protein-polymer interactions markedly alter the effect of macromolecular crowding on protein association equilibria

M Jiao, HT Li, J Chen, AP Minton, Y Liang - Biophysical journal, 2010 - cell.com
The dependence of the fluorescence of catalase upon the concentration of added
superoxide dismutase (SOD) indicates that SOD binds to saturable sites on catalase. The …

Protein-complex stability in cells and in vitro under crowded conditions

SS Stadmiller, GJ Pielak - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Both steric repulsions and chemical interactions are important.•Systematic
experiments involving temperature, crowder molecular weight and concentration are …