Protecting osmolytes play a crucial role in preventing protein denaturation in harsh environmental conditions of living organisms. Experimental evidence is provided for a mechanism of protein-fold stabilization by these molecules that is in accord with the hypothesis of a backbone-based osmophobic effect. (In picture: ”G=free energy, [O]=osmolyte concentration, Ç=unfolding reaction coordinate.)

Single-Molecule-Level Evidence for the Osmophobic Effect

2011

Abstract

Protecting osmolytes play a crucial role in preventing protein denaturation in harsh environmental conditions of living organisms. Experimental evidence is provided for a mechanism of protein-fold stabilization by these molecules that is in accord with the hypothesis of a backbone-based osmophobic effect. (In picture: ”G=free energy, [O]=osmolyte concentration, Ç=unfolding reaction coordinate.)
2011
Istituto Nanoscienze - NANO
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