Role of solvent properties of water in crowding effects induced by macromolecular agents and osmolytes

Effects of macromolecular crowding on alkaline phosphatase unfolding, conformation and stability

(2017) Jiajia Jia et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

Effect of human heat shock protein HspB6 on the solvent features of water in aqueous solutions

(2017) Luisa A. Ferreira et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE & DYNAMICS

Explicit Incorporation of Hard and Soft Protein–Protein Interactions into Models for Crowding Effects in Protein Mixtures. 2. Effects of Varying Hard and Soft Interactions upon Prototypical Chemical Equilibria

(2017) Allen P. Minton   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Model studies of the effects of intracellular crowding on nucleic acid interactions

(2017) Shu-ichi Nakano et al.   Molecular BioSystems

Microorganisms maintain crowding homeostasis

(2017) Jonas van den Berg et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Trimethylamine-N-oxide: its hydration structure, surface activity, and biological function, viewed by vibrational spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations

(2017) Tatsuhiko Ohto et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Effects of the Hofmeister series of sodium salts on the solvent properties of water

(2017) L. A. Ferreira et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

RNA Hairpin Folding in the Crowded Cell

(2016) Mimi Gao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The macromolecular crowding effect – from in vitro into the cell

(2016) David Gnutt et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Water Determines the Structure and Dynamics of Proteins

(2016) Marie-Claire Bellissent-Funel et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Macromolecular and Small Molecular Crowding Have Similar Effects on α-Synuclein Structure

(2016) Jia Bai et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Modulation of the Polymerization Kinetics of α/β-Tubulin by Osmolytes and Macromolecular Crowding

(2016) Paul Hendrik Schummel et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Effects of osmolytes on solvent features of water in aqueous solutions

(2016) Luisa A. Ferreira et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE & DYNAMICS

Why physicochemical properties of aqueous solutions of various compounds are linearly interrelated

(2016) Luisa A. Ferreira et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS

Computational Vibrational Spectroscopy of HDO in Osmolyte–Water Solutions

(2016) Hochan Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Cosolvent and Crowding Effects on the Temperature and Pressure Dependent Conformational Dynamics and Stability of Globular Actin

(2016) Paul Hendrik Schummel et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Incorporation of Hard and Soft Protein–Protein Interactions into Models for Crowding Effects in Binary and Ternary Protein Mixtures. Comparison of Approximate Analytical Solutions with Numerical Simulation

(2016) Travis Hoppe et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Thermodynamics of Macromolecular Association in Heterogeneous Crowding Environments: Theoretical and Simulation Studies with a Simplified Model

(2016) Tadashi Ando et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Water Dynamics in Cytoplasm-Like Crowded Environment Correlates with the Conformational Transition of the Macromolecular Crowder

(2016) Pramod Kumar Verma et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Influence of TMAO and urea on the structure of water studied by inelastic X-ray scattering

(2016) Christoph J. Sahle et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

In-cell thermodynamics and a new role for protein surfaces

(2016) Austin E. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effects of trimethylamine N-oxide and urea on DNA duplex and G-quadruplex

(2016) Yu-mi Ueda et al.   SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS

Macromolecular Crowding In Vitro , In Vivo , and In Between

(2016) Germán Rivas et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

The Differential Response of Proteins to Macromolecular Crowding

(2016) Michela Candotti et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Microenvironments created by liquid-liquid phase transition control the dynamic distribution of bacterial division FtsZ protein

(2016) Begoña Monterroso et al.   Scientific Reports

Osmolyte mixtures have different effects than individual osmolytes on protein folding and functional activity

(2015) Marina Warepam et al.   ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS

Effects of osmolytes on protein-solvent interactions in crowded environment: Analyzing the effect of TMAO on proteins in crowded solutions

(2015) Leonid Breydo et al.   ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS

Macromolecular crowding: Macromolecules friend or foe

(2015) Shruti Mittal et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS

Role of solvent properties of aqueous media in macromolecular crowding effects

(2015) Luisa A. Ferreira et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE & DYNAMICS

Macromolecular Stabilization by Excluded Cosolutes: Mean Field Theory of Crowded Solutions

(2015) Liel Sapir et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Spectral Graph Analyses of Water Hydrogen-Bonding Network and Osmolyte Aggregate Structures in Osmolyte–Water Solutions

(2015) Hochan Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Water-mediated interactions between trimethylamine-N-oxide and urea

(2015) Johannes Hunger et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

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

(2015) Kim A. Sharp   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Analyzing the effects of protecting osmolytes on solute–water interactions by solvatochromic comparison method: II. Globular proteins

(2015) Luisa A. Ferreira et al.   RSC Advances

Excluded-Volume Effects in Living Cells

(2014) David Gnutt et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Intrinsically disordered proteins as crucial constituents of cellular aqueous two phase systems and coacervates

(2014) Vladimir N. Uversky et al.   FEBS LETTERS

What Macromolecular Crowding Can Do to a Protein

(2014) Irina Kuznetsova et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Protein Stabilization by Macromolecular Crowding through Enthalpy Rather Than Entropy

(2014) Michael Senske et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Molecular crowders and cosolutes promote folding cooperativity of RNA under physiological ionic conditions

(2014) C. A. Strulson et al.   RNA

Exploring the Molecular Mechanism of Trimethylamine-N-oxide’s Ability to Counteract the Protein Denaturing Effects of Urea

(2013) Rahul Sarma et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Crowders Perturb the Entropy of RNA Energy Landscapes to Favor Folding

(2013) Duncan Kilburn et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Solvation Dynamics of Biological Water in a Single Live Cell under a Confocal Microscope

(2013) Dibyendu Kumar Sasmal et al.   LANGMUIR

Unexpected Effects of Macromolecular Crowding on Protein Stability

(2012) Laura A. Benton et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Quantitative assessment of the relative contributions of steric repulsion and chemical interactions to macromolecular crowding

(2012) Allen P. Minton   BIOPOLYMERS

Salt effects on solvent features of coexisting phases in aqueous polymer/polymer two-phase systems

(2012) Pedro P. Madeira et al.   JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A

Macromolecular Crowding and Protein Stability

(2012) Yaqiang Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Effect of Mixed Crowding on Refolding of Human Muscle Creatine Kinase

(2012) Zhi-Min Lin et al.   PROTEIN AND PEPTIDE LETTERS

Solvent properties governing protein partitioning in polymer/polymer aqueous two-phase systems

(2011) Pedro P. Madeira et al.   JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A

Understanding the polarity of ionic liquids

(2011) M. A. Ab Rani et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Slowing down of water dynamics in disaccharide aqueous solutions

(2010) A. Lerbret et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS

Molecular Crowding Stabilizes Folded RNA Structure by the Excluded Volume Effect

(2010) Duncan Kilburn et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The Impact of Polyols on Water Structure in Solution: A Computational Study†

(2009) Regina Politi et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Destabilization of the Hydrogen-Bond Structure of Water by the Osmolyte TrimethylamineN-Oxide†

(2009) Y. L. A. Rezus et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Nonadditive effects of mixed crowding on protein stability

(2009) Jyotica Batra et al.   PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS

Macromolecular Crowding and Confinement: Biochemical, Biophysical, and Potential Physiological Consequences

(2008) Huan-Xiang Zhou et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics