The tobacco mosaic virus is used as a model molecular assembly to illustrate the basic potentialities of light scattering techniques (both static and dynamic) to undergraduates. The work has two objectives: a pedagogic one (introducing light scattering to undergraduate students) and a scientific one (stabilization of the virus molecular assembly structure by the nucleic acid). Students are firs...

A general correction term in the radius of gyration ~caling law is discussed. The work incorporates the finite size effect considered by Ball and Jullien (J. Ph_»s. Left. Fiance 45 (1984) L1031j and is a potentially useful extension of their analysis to polydisperse systems. Numerical simulations verify these re~ults for one particular model, and demonstrate the remarkable

Molecular dynamics simulation of a generic polymer model is applied to study melts of polymers with different types of intrinsic stiffness. Important static observables of the single chain such as gyration radius or persistence length are determined. Additionally we investigate the overall static melt structure including pair correlation function, structure function and orientational correlatio...

The influence of Mg2+ ions on the secondary and tertiary structure of the RNA from bacteriophage MS2 was investigated by small-angle X-ray scattering and light scattering and by sedimentation experiments. The analysis of the outer part of the X-ray scattering curve obtained at low temperature in the absence of Mg2+ yielded a cross-section radius of gyration of 0.88 nm and a mass per unit length...

We have derived long series expansions for the perimeter generating functions of the radius of gyration of various polygons with a convexity constraint. Using the series we numerically find simple (algebraic) exact solutions for the generating functions. In all cases the size exponent ν = 1. PACS numbers: 05.50.+q, 05.70.Jk, 02.10.Ox

Polyproline type II (PPII) helix has emerged recently as the dominant paradigm for describing the conformation of unfolded polypeptides. However, most experimental observables used to characterize unfolded proteins typically provide only short-range, sequence-local structural information that is both time- and ensemble-averaged, giving limited detail about the long-range structure of the chain....

Hybrid polyion complex (HPIC) micelles are nanoaggregates obtained by complexation of multivalent metal ions by double hydrophilic block copolymers (DHBC). Solutions of DHBC such as the poly(acrylic acid)-block-poly(acrylamide) (PAA-b-PAM) or poly(acrylic acid)-block-poly(2-hydroxyethylacrylate) (PAA-b-PHEA), constituted of an ionizable complexing block and a neutral stabilizing block, were mix...

Nanopartmles have been used as an approach to improve the pharmacodynamic and phannacokinetie propertiesof various drues. Amino acids have been considered to be useful to make such nano particles because ofthocompatithe and biodegradable characteristic. The quantum mechanical method that was chosen to analyze inethio hexa peptide nano ring]. The structure of some peptide nanorrigs as well as th...