Previous reports have indicated that parasite actins are short and inherently unstable, despite being required for motility. Here we re-examine the polymerization properties of actin in Toxoplasma gondii, unexpectedly finding that it exhibits isodesmic polymerization in contrast to the conventional nucleation-elongation process of all previously studied actins from both eukaryotes and bacteria....

polymerization of styrene in presence of two monofunctional initiators is studied kinetically in an ampoule scale. polymerizations were ceased at different conversions for each ampoule while the temperature was increased almost linearly during the reaction. three different initiator mixtures were used. the first mixtures were composed of benzoil peroxide (bpo) and t-butyl perbenzoate (tbpb) wit...

Graft polymerization of acrylic acid (AA) and ethyl methacrylate (EMA) onto starch (St) were carried out in aqueous solution using ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) as redox system under N2 atmosphere. The effect of pH, reaction time, temperature, concentrations of CAN, St, and monomers on the graft yield was investigated. Monomer reactivity was in the following order: AA>EMA.<em...

Variabilities in polyamide 6 (PA6) composite manufacturing by liquid processes can occur due to polymerization, crystallization, and flow through a fibrous preform. Numerical simulations of the process predicting kinetics facilitate optimization. This study proposes an efficient modeling approach that be integrated current simulation discretization methods such as finite volume method (FVM) whi...

.................................................................................................................................. iii CONTENTS ................................................................................................................................... vi 1 INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW ............................................................... 1 1.1 Introduct...