Statistical Mechanical Modeling of Protein Adsorption
β Scribed by P. R. Van Tassel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0933-5137
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
We present rationale for and a derivation of a statistical mechanical model of protein adsorption. Proteins are modeled as rigid geometric objects adsorbing initially in a reversible manner and subsequently undergoing an irreversible change in shape to a permanently adsorbed state. Both adsorption and shape change occur subject to energetic interactions with previously adsorbed proteins. We evaluate the model quantitatively for proteins with diskβshaped projections within the scaled particle theory and compare the predictions to experimental measurements taken via optical waveguide lightmode spectroscopy.
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