A mathematical analysis of the formation of hemolytic plaques in agar is presented. The results can be used to calculate the rate constant for antigen-antibody association and the distribution of antibody secretion rates. The limitations of the treatment and estimates of the expected errors involved are briefly discussed.

Macrocyclic ligands form highly selective and kinetically labile complexes with a wide range of cations, including alkali metal and alkaline earth cations. Formation rate constants are high and remarkably insensitive to ligand structure, but decrease systematically with increasing charge density of the cation this behaviour is qualitatively similar to that expected for the dissociative intercha...

Thermodynamics and kinetics of off-lattice models with side chains for the b-hairpin fragment of immunoglobulin-binding protein and its variants are reported. For all properties (except refolding time tF) there are no qualitative differences between the full model and the Go# version. The validity of the models is established by comparison of the calculated native structure with the Protein Dat...

We investigate the kinetics of loop formation in ideal flexible polymer chains (the Rouse model), and polymers in good and poor solvents. We show for the Rouse model, using a modification of the theory of Szabo, Schulten, and Schulten, that the time scale for cyclization is tau(c) approximately tau(0)N(2) (where tau(0) is a microscopic time scale and N is the number of monomers), provided the c...

Thermodynamics and kinetics of off-lattice models with side chains for the beta-hairpin fragment of immunoglobulin-binding protein and its variants are reported. For all properties (except refolding time tau(F)) there are no qualitative differences between the full model and the Go version. The validity of the models is established by comparison of the calculated native structure with the Prote...