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A statistical mechanical study of helix–coil transition in concentrated solutions of polypeptides and proteins

✍ Scribed by V. Ya. Maleev; A. I. Gasan

Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
1974
Tongue
English
Weight
740 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-3525

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Abstract

The helix–coil transition in polypeptides was studied by methods of statistical mechanics, taking account of interaction between “melted” amide groups through hydrogen bonds. The statistical sums are calculated in the explicit form for two limit cases: (1) the dilute solution when the main contribution is given by collisions of two particles; (2) “condensation” when contacting macromolecules form a united aggregate. In the first case the transition enthalpy was shown to decrease linearly when the concentration increases, while at the appropriate choice of theoretical parameters, melting temperature and range are almost independent of the concentration. In the second case the structural transition parameters were shown to be independent of the concentration (the saturation effect). These results agree with the experimental data on synthetic polypeptides reported by other authors and with data on some globular proteins (serum and egg albumin) reported in this paper.

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