Hydrophobicity scale for proteins based on inverse temperature transitions

Biopolymers ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 1243-1250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan W. Urry ◽  
D. Channe Gowda ◽  
Timothy M. Parker ◽  
Chi-Hao Luan ◽  
Michael C. Reid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inverse Temperature ◽  
Hydrophobicity Scale

Self-Assembly of Hydrogels From Elastin-Mimetic Block Copolymers

2002 ◽  
Vol 724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth R. Wright ◽  
R. Andrew McMillan ◽  
Alan Cooper ◽  
Robert P. Apkarian ◽  
Vincent P. Conticello
Keyword(s):  
Block Copolymers ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Triblock Copolymers ◽  
Variable Temperature ◽  
Inverse Temperature ◽  
Temperature Transition ◽  
Scanning Calorimetry ◽  
Design Synthesis ◽  
Inverse Temperature Transition ◽  
Functional Biomaterials

AbstractTriblock copolymers have traditionally been synthesized with conventional organic components. However, triblock copolymers could be synthesized by the incorporation of two incompatible protein-based polymers. The polypeptides would differ in their hydrophobicity and confer unique physiochemical properties to the resultant materials. One protein-based polymer, based on a sequence of native elastin, that has been utilized in the synthesis of biomaterials is poly (Valine-Proline-Glycine-ValineGlycine) or poly(VPGVG) [1]. This polypeptide has been shown to have an inverse temperature transition that can be adjusted by non-conservative amino acid substitutions in the fourth position [2]. By combining polypeptide blocks with different inverse temperature transition values due to hydrophobicity differences, we expect to produce amphiphilic polypeptides capable of self-assembly into hydrogels. Our research examines the design, synthesis and characterization of elastin-mimetic block copolymers as functional biomaterials. The methods that are used for the characterization include variable temperature 1D and 2D High-Resolution-NMR, cryo-High Resolutions Scanning Electron Microscopy and Differential Scanning Calorimetry.

Some Explicit Results for the Mean Spherical Approximation for Mixtures of Yukawa Fluids

2008 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas J. Henderson ◽  
Osvaldo H. Scalise
Keyword(s):  
Integral Equation ◽  
Spherical Approximation ◽  
Mean Spherical Approximation ◽  
Inverse Temperature ◽  
Temperature Expansion ◽  
Yukawa Fluid ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Full Solution ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Reasonable Model

The mean spherical approximation (MSA) is of interest because it produces an integral equation that yields useful analytical results for a number of fluids. One such case is the Yukawa fluid, which is a reasonable model for a simple fluid. The original MSA solution for this fluid, due to Waisman, is analytic but not explicit. Ginoza has simplified this solution. However, Ginoza's result is not quite explicit. Some years ago, Henderson, Blum, and Noworyta obtained explicit results for the thermodynamic functions of a single-component Yukawa fluid that have proven useful. They expanded Ginoza's result in an inverse-temperature expansion. Even when this expansion is truncated at fifth, or even lower, order, this expansion is nearly as accurate as the full solution and provides insight into the form of the higher-order coefficients in this expansion. In this paper Ginoza's implicit result for the case of a rather special mixture of Yukawa fluids is considered. Explicit results are obtained, again using an inverse-temperature expansion. Numerical results are given for the coefficients in this expansion. Some thoughts concerning the generalization of these results to a general mixture of Yukawa fluids are presented.

Room-temperature synthesis, growth mechanisms and opto-electronic properties of organic–inorganic halide perovskite CH3NH3PbX3 (X = I, Br, and Cl) single crystals

CrystEngComm ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Bari ◽  
Hua Wu ◽  
Alexei A. Bokov ◽  
Rana Faryad Ali ◽  
Hamel N. Tailor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Properties ◽  
Single Crystals ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Solubility Curve ◽  
Inverse Temperature ◽  
Growth Mechanisms ◽  
Temperature Synthesis ◽  
Room Temperature Synthesis ◽  
Halide Perovskite ◽  
Temperature Crystallization

Growth of MAPbX3 (X = I, Br, and Cl) single crystals by room temperature crystallization (RTC) method, and the crystallization pathway illustrated by the solubility curve of MAPbCl3 in DMSO, compared with inverse temperature crystallization (ITC) method.

Effect of NaCl on the Exothermic and Endothermic Components of the Inverse Temperature Transition of a Model Elastin-like Polymer

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 354-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Reguera ◽  
Dan W. Urry ◽  
Timothy M. Parker ◽  
David T. McPherson ◽  
J. Carlos Rodríguez-Cabello
Keyword(s):  
Inverse Temperature ◽  
Temperature Transition ◽  
Inverse Temperature Transition
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