Energy conversion, biological model

Development of the Fuel Cell Model in Biological Energy Conversion... 

An electrochemical model of energy conversion in the body, of metabolism, involves the mitochondria within biological cells. These are in contact with a liquid phase and this contains two substances relevant to energy conversion an H carrier (e.g. NADH), which yields H to take part in the electron-producing ionization H - H+ + e, and an 02 equivalent, which undergoes the electrochemical reduction reaction, 02 + 4H+ + 4e 2H20. 

In conclusion, the PR studies of the cd NiRs provide a clear example of an allosteric control mechanism of intraprotein ET reactivity this system is an attractive model for internal control of charge migration and distribution in proteins. The immediate candidate for observation of similar regulation is in one of nature s key players in biological energy conversion, namely, cytochrome c oxidase, which will be discussed later (cf. Section Vl.A). 

Designed elastic model proteins exhibit diverse Junctions that mimic biological functions by diverse means of controlling association of oillike domains. As a result, five experimentally derived axioms phenomenologically categorize means by which energy conversions occur through control of association of oil-like domains. 

These experimental demonstrations of our capacity to design model proteins that perform key biological energy conversions constitute our access to the question o/What Sustains Life. 

Ec(uivalence of Energy Conversion to Biology s Proteins yet Structural Limitations of Elastic-contractile Model Proteins... 

Relationship Between Width of Transition Zone (Plotted Using the Log Scale), Efficiency of Energy Conversion, Energy Required for Biological Production of the Model Proteins, and Evolution of More Efficient Machines... 

The consilient mechanism was bom out of controlling the hydrophobic association-dissociation of elastic-contractile model proteins to achieve the possibility of some 18 classes of pairwise energy conversions (see Chapter 5, section 5.6). In the process a set of five Axioms became the phenomenology out of which the consilient mechanism arose. For the first time a common groundwork of explanation was able to perform the diverse energy conversions of biology. 

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