Consilient mechanisms energy conversions

A diverse set of energy conversions that sustain life can be experimentally demonstrated by de novo design of elastic-contractile model proteins under the precept of a single, pervasive, mechanism, that is, by a consilient mechanism that creates a common groundwork of explanation. It is a mechanism that achieves function by controlling association of... 

The correlations of Figure 2.6 represent one profound expression of the consilient mechanism for protein function in energy conversion that is, the data of Figure 2.6 represent a common groundwork of explanation" for protein function. 

A Consilient Mechanism Provides a Common Groundwork of Explanation for the Diverse Energy Conversions of Biology... 

The position of the T,-divide that separates soluble from insoluble (hydrophobically associated) states in the phase diagram depends on seven variables on the six intensive variables of temperature, chemical potential, electrochemical potential, mechanical force, pressure, and electromagnetic radiation, and on polymer volume fraction or concentration. Therefore, diverse protein-catalyzed energy conversions by the consilient mechanism result from designs that control the location of the Tfdivide in this seven-dimensional phase transitional space. Complete mathematical description has yet to be written for representation of the T,-divide in seven-dimensional phase transitional space, but it may prove to be more relevant to... 

Importance of the Elastic Consilient Mechanism to Efficiency of Energy Conversion... 

Cataloging the Energy Resources Available to the Consilient Mechanism of Energy Conversion 131... 

T, to a new value of T, caused by an energy input represented by % to provide a measure of the change in Gibbs free energy for hydrophobic association of the protein-based polymer. Therefore, Tt, the onset temperature for the inverse temperature transition, represents an intrinsic property of the hydrophobic consilient mechanism of energy conversion. 

The Statement for Energy Conversion by the Coupling of Functions with the Consilient Mechanism Becomes Axiom 4... 

Summary Hexagon of Energy Conversions by the Consilient Mechanism of AGha... 

This axiom is the fundamental energy coupling axiom it utilizes the hydrophobic association transition common to all energy conversions by the consilient mechanism. Importantly, in doing so, it involves the performance of kinds of work in addition to mechanical work. Examples include the following ... 

Our focus now turns to the physical basis whereby the energy conversions of the hydrophobic consilient mechanism occur, and, of course, it becomes an issue of what controls the inverse temperature transition of hydrophobic association. 

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