## Abstract Methods are described for numerical calculation of the anisotropic components of the translational and rotational friction coefficient tensors and of the intrinsic viscosity for rigid multisubunit structures in dilute solution. The methods apply to assemblies of any shape, provided that
Frictional properties of multisubunit structures
β Scribed by J. A. McCammon; J. M. Deutch; B. U. Felderhof
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 401 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0006-3525
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
The translational drag, rotational drag, and intrinsic viscosity of spherical multisubunit structures have been calculated analytically using the FelderhofβDeutch theory of polymer frictional properties. The structures considered were hollow shells, spheres with uniform subunit density, and spheres covered with a subunit layer of different density. Changes in the transport coefficients resulting from the random removal of subunits and from the variation of subunit size are calculated. For the case of the shell, the results agree with the numerical computations of Bloomfield, Dalton, and Van Holde [Biopolymers 5, 135, 149 (1967)].
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
The theory of Kirkwood for the translational frictional coefficients of structures composed of identical subunits has been extended in the previous paper t.o the case where nonidentical snbiinits are involved. In this paper, the t.heory is applied to particular proteins and viruses. It is found that