Average number of macromolecules in the immediate neighborhood of a GFP

Range ~5 neighbours
Organism Generic
Reference McGuffee SR, Elcock AH. Diffusion, crowding & protein stability in a dynamic molecular model of the bacterial cytoplasm. PLoS Comput Biol. 2010 Mar 5 6(3):e1000694. p.2 right column bottom paragraphPubMed ID20221255
Comments "As might be expected, the average numbers of neighbors that a macromolecule possesses at any instant scales essentially monotonically with its molecular weight: the average number of macromolecules in the immediate neighborhood of a GFP molecule, for example, is only ~5 while for the 50S ribosomal subunit it is more than 25 (Figure 2D)."
Entered by Uri M
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