The red beds in Zhejiang province of China host the highest concentration Danxia arched rock shelters world, just as Colorado Plateau western USA hosts world’s largest natural arches and bridges. This study investigated geological background compared them to bridges, based on field a literature review. It was found that differ from bridges geometry formation mechanism. Statistical geometric dat...

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Electrosprayed protein ions can retain native-like conformations. The intramolecular contacts that stabilize these compact gas-phase structures remain poorly understood. Recent work has uncovered abundant salt bridges in electrosprayed proteins. Salt are zwitterionic BH+/A- contacts. low dielectric constant the vacuum strengthens electrostatic interactions, suggesting could be a key contributor...

We reported recently that certain β(3) -peptides self-assemble in aqueous solution into discrete bundles of unique structure and defined stoichiometry. The first β-peptide bundle reported was the octameric Zwit-1F, whose fold is characterized by a well-packed, leucine-rich core and a salt-bridge-rich surface. Close inspection of the Zwit-1F structure revealed four nonideal interhelical salt-bri...

A generalization of the Szabo-Karplus statistical mechanical model for hemoglobin cooperativity is formulated. The model fits the available thermodynamic and spectroscopic data with assumptions that are consistent with structural results and empirical energy function calculations. It provides a mechanism of hemoglobin cooperativity that is a generalization of the proposals of Monod, Wyman, and ...

NMR investigations have been carried out on the B1 domain of protein G. This protein has six lysine residues, of which three are consistently found to form surface-exposed salt bridges in crystal structures, while the other three are not. The Nzeta and Hzeta chemical shifts of all six lysines are similar and are not affected significantly by pH titration of the carboxylate groups in the protein...

A spider's ability to store silk protein solutions at high concentration is believed to be related to the protein's terminal domains. It has been suggested that a shift in salt concentration and pH can have a significant influence on the assembly process. Based on experimental data, a model has been proposed in which the N-terminal domain exists as a monomer during storage and assembles into a ...