@article{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00075692,
 author = {Hirai, Mitsuhiro and Ajito, Satoshi and Arai, Shigeki and Adachi, Motoyasu and Shimizu, Rumi and Wakamatsu, Kaori and Shin-ichi, Takata and Iwase, Hiroki and Arai, Shigeki and Adachi, Motoyasu and Shimizu, Rumi},
 issue = {15},
 journal = {The Journal of Physical Chemistry B},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {The interior of living cells is a molecular-crowding environment, where large quantities of various molecules coexist. Investigations into the nature of this environment are essential for an understanding of both the elaborate biological reactions and maintenance of homeostasis occurring therein. The equilibrium states of biological macromolecular systems are affected by molecular crowding environments unmatched by in vitro diluted environments; knowledge about crowding effects is still insufficient due to a lack of relevant experimental studies. Recent developments in the techniques of in-cell NMR and large-scale molecular dynamics simulation are providing new insights into the structure and dynamics of biological molecules inside cells. This study focused on a new experimental technique to directly observe the structure of a specific protein or membrane in condensed crowder solutions using neutron scattering. Deuterated whole-cell debris was used to reproduce an environment that more closely mimics the interior of living cells than models used previously. By the reduction of the background-scattering from large amounts of cell debris, we successfully extracted structure information for both a small globular protein and a small unilamellar vesicle (SUV) from the concentrated cell-debris solution up to a weight ratio of 1/60 for protein/crowder and 1/40 for SUV/crowder.},
 pages = {3189--3198},
 title = {Observation of Protein and Lipid Membrane Structures in a Model Mimicking the Molecular Crowding Environment of Cells Using Neutron Scattering and Cell Debris},
 volume = {123},
 year = {2019}
}