Effects of polydisperse crowders on aggregation reactions: A molecular thermodynamic analysis

Dhawal Shah*, Aik Lee Tan, Vigneshwar Ramakrishnan, Jianwen Jiang, Raj Rajagopalan

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ملخص

Intracellular crowding in biological systems is usually mimicked in in vitro experiments by adding single crowders at high volume fractions, without taking into consideration the polydispersity of the crowders in the cellular environment. Here, we develop a molecular thermodynamic formalism to examine the effects of size-polydispersity of crowders on aggregation reaction equilibria. Although the predominantly common practice so far has been to appeal to the entropic (excluded-volume) effects in describing crowding effects, we show that the internal energy (hence, the enthalpy) of the system could dramatically alter the effects, even qualitatively, particularly in the case of a mixture of crowders, depending on the changes in the covolume of the products relative to that of the reactants and on the preferential binding or exclusion of the crowders by the reactants and products. We also show that in the case of polydisperse crowders the crowders with the largest size difference dominate the overall changes in the yield of the reaction, depending on the individual concentrations of the crowders.

اللغة الأصليةEnglish
رقم المقال064704
دوريةJournal of Chemical Physics
مستوى الصوت134
رقم الإصدار6
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حالة النشرPublished - فبراير 14 2011
منشور خارجيًانعم

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