To what extent do general features of folding/unfolding kinetics of small globular proteins follow from their thermodynamic properties? To address this question, we investigate a new simplified protein chain model that embodies a cooperative interplay between local conformational preferences and hydrophobic burial. The present four-helix-bundle 55mer model exhibits protein-like calorimetric two...

In order to maintain cellular homeostasis, cellular proteins coexist in complex and variable molecular assemblies. Therefore, understanding of major physiological processes at molecular level is based on analysis of protein-protein interaction networks. Firstly, composition of the molecular assembly has to be qualitatively analyzed. In the next step, quantitative bio-chemical properties of the ...

The kinetic characteristics of soil urease have attracted great attention, but little information was available on its kinetic and thermodynamic behaviors as affected by urease inhibitors and temperature. With black soil (Pachic Udic Mollisol) in Heilongjiang Province of Northeast China as a test soil, an incubation test was conducted to investigate the effect of urease inhibitors (hydroquinone...

A series of dinuclear Pt(II) complexes of the type [Pt2(N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(2-pyridylmethyl)diamine(H2O)2]4+ were synthesized. Acid-base titrations, and concentration and temperature dependent stopped-flow measurements of the reaction with chloride were performed to study the thermodynamic and kinetic behaviour of the dinuclear bridged complexes. The results indicate that there is a clear intera...

1. Introduction Thermodynamic analysis [1,2] of the most significant experimental data on the hydrogen sorption by graphites and related novel carbon-based nanomaterials at room temperatures and technological pressures (fullerenes, single-and multi-wall nanotubes, nanofibers, nanostructured graphites) is performed. The thermodynamic and kinetic (diffusion) characteristics of sorption processes ...