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Conformation-changing enzymes and macromolecular crowding

Tomasz Skóra, Mihail N. Popescu, Svyatoslav Kondrat

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · 2021 · 24 citations · 36 references

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Abstract

We study how crowding affects the activity and catalysis-enhanced diffusion of enzymes and passive tracers by employing a fluctuating-dumbbell model of conformation-changing enzymes.

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