[HTML][HTML] It is time to crowd your cell culture media–physicochemical considerations with biological consequences

D Tsiapalis, DI Zeugolis - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
In vivo, the interior and exterior of cells is populated by various macromolecules that create
an extremely crowded milieu. Yet again, in vitro eukaryotic cell culture is conducted in dilute …

Bioinspired in vitro microenvironments to control cell fate: focus on macromolecular crowding

DI Zeugolis - American Journal of Physiology-Cell …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
The development of therapeutic regenerative medicine and accurate drug discovery cell-
based products requires effective, with respect to obtaining sufficient numbers of viable …

Role of Associated Water Dynamics on Protein Stability and Activity in Crowded Milieu

T Khan, B Halder, N Das, P Sen - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Macromolecular crowding bridges in vivo and in vitro studies by simulating cellular
complexities such as high viscosity and limited space while maintaining the experimental …

Macromolecular crowding: how shape and interaction affect the structure, function, conformational dynamics and relative domain movement of a multi-domain protein

N Das, P Sen - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The cellular environment is crowded by macromolecules of various sizes, shapes, and
charges, which modulate protein structure, function and dynamics. Herein, we contemplated …

Shape-dependent macromolecular crowding on the thermodynamics and microsecond conformational dynamics of protein unfolding revealed at the single-molecule …

N Das, P Sen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2020 - ACS Publications
One of the main differences in the intercellular environment compared to the laboratory
condition is the presence of macromolecular crowders of various compositions, sizes, and …

Associated water dynamics might be a key factor affecting protein stability in the crowded milieu

N Das, E Tarif, A Dutta, P Sen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Over the past 20 years, the most studied and debated aspect of macromolecular crowding is
how it affects protein stability. Traditionally, it is explained by a delicate balance between the …

Reinforcing Protein Biochemistry: A Two-Week Experiment Studying Iron (III) Binding by the Transferrin Protein through Stoichiometric Determination, Stability …

JA Benjamín-Rivera, MP Otero… - Journal of chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The two-week protein biochemistry experience described herein focuses on reinforcing key
biochemical concepts and achieving significant learning domain accomplishments for …

Effects of interionic non-hard sphere neutral interaction and solvent crowding on differential capacitance curve of electrical double layer

S Zhou - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
By using classical density functional theory, we study the effects of interionic nonhard sphere
neutral interaction (NHSNI) and solvent crowding on curve of differential electrical …

A Pioneering Review on Quantitative Analysis of the Effect of Macromolecular Crowding on Drug Transport and Release: Current Implications

D Singh, L Singh - Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part B, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The intricate interplay of macromolecules within biological systems significantly influences
the behavior of therapeutic agents, making the understanding of macromolecular crowding …

Nonspecific interaction and overlap concentration influence macromolecular crowding effect on glucose oxidase activity

S Xu, J Wang, J Dong - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2023 - Elsevier
Macromolecular crowding can change kinetics of enzyme catalysis. How interaction
between enzymes and neighboring macromolecules contributes to the crowding effect on …