The macromolecular crowding effect--from in vitro into the cell.

Abstract:

:The influence of the cellular milieu, a complex and crowded solvent, is often neglected when biomolecular structure and function are studied in vitro. To mimic the cellular environment, crowding effects are commonly induced in vitro using artificial crowding agents like Ficoll or dextran. However, it is unclear if such effects are also observed in cellulo. Diverging results on protein stability in living cells point out the need for new quantitative methods to investigate the contributions of excluded volume and nonspecific interactions to the cellular crowding effect. We show how new crowding sensitive probes may be utilized to directly investigate crowding effects in living cells. Moreover, we discuss processes where crowding effects could play a crucial role in molecular cell biology.

journal_name

Biol Chem

journal_title

Biological chemistry

authors

Gnutt D,Ebbinghaus S

doi

10.1515/hsz-2015-0161

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-01-01 00:00:00

pages

37-44

issue

1

eissn

1431-6730

issn

1437-4315

pii

/j/bchm.just-accepted/hsz-2015-0161/hsz-2015-0161.

journal_volume

397

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