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Stability of Protein-Specific Hydration Shell on Crowding.
Journal of the American Chemical Society - 27 Apr 2016
Huang Kuo-Ying, Kingsley Carolyn N, Sheil Ryan, Cheng Chi-Yuan, Bierma Jan C, Roskamp Kyle W, Khago Domarin, Martin Rachel W, Han Songi
Abstract excerpt
We demonstrate that the effect of protein crowding is critically dependent on the stability of the protein's hydration shell, which can dramatically vary between different proteins. In the human eye lens, γS-crystallin (γS-WT) forms a densely packed transparent hydrogel with a high refractive index, making it an ideal system for studying the effects of protein crowding. A single point mutation generates the...
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