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The effect of high pressure upon proteins and other biomolecules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2009

Gregorio Weber  and
Harry G. Drickamer
Gregorio Weber
Affiliation:
School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801
Harry G. Drickamer
Affiliation:
School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801
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We shall not attempt here to enumerate the results or review in a systematic way the significant literature dealing with the use of high pressure in studies of proteins and other molecules of biological interest. Two recent reviews on this subject, one by MOrild (1981) and another by Heremans (1982), and a further article by Jaenicke (1981) on enzymes under extreme environmental conditions contain expositions and references that would render redundatn such a task. Rather we concentrate here on the examination of othe conceptual framework employed in the interpretation of high pressure experiments and in the critical discussion of our knowledge of selected areas of present interest and likely future significance.

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Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 89 - 112
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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