Effects of crowders on protein stability

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Reference Shahid S et al., Size-dependent studies of macromolecular crowding on the thermodynamic stability, structure and functional activity of proteins: in vitro and in silico approaches. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2017 Feb1861(2):178-197. doi: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2016.11.014 p.181 table 1PubMed ID27842220
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Comments P.181 left column bottom paragraph: "In agreement with the expectations based on volume exclusion [ref 109], the influence of such crowding environment in terms of thermodynamic stability of a protein has been reported by various researchers (Table 1). Batra and co-workers have shown that among different sizes of dextran (6, 10, 20, 40, 70, 100 and 150 kDa) and ficoll 70, the maximum stabilization of FK-506 binding protein (FKBP) in terms of unfolding free energy was found at 100 g/l of 40 kDa signifying that both size and concentration of a crowder are worth taking into consideration [primary source 30]."
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