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Crowding and function reunite

Gary J Pielak et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010.

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(A) The Escherichia coli cytoplasm, as modeled by McGuffee and Elcock (1). (B) Open form of phosphoglycerate kinase (PDB ID code 1QPG), visualized with visual molecular dynamics (20).

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