Flexible interactions

Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) Molecular weight M, molecular weight distribution, g(M) vs. M, polydispersity, sedimentation coefficient, s, and distribution, g(s) vs. s solution conformation and flexibility. Interaction complex formation phenomena. Molecular charge No columns or membranes required [2]... 

Whatever the mechanism is, particles adhere spontaneously if, at constant temperature and pressure, the Gibbs energy G of the system decreases. The main contributions to the Gibbs energy of particle adhesion A Gad are from electrostatic, hydrophobic and dispersion forces,1 5 and, furthermore, in case of protein adsorption, from rearrangements in the structure of the protein molecule.6 9 When the sorbent surface is not smooth but hairy , additional, mainly steric, interactions come into play.4,10 12 Hairy surfaces are often encountered in nature as a result of adsorbed or grafted natural polymers, such as polysaccharides, that reach out in the surrounding medium with some flexibility. Interaction of particles with such hairy surfaces will be dealt with in section 3. 

Liquid chromatographic resolutions based on highly selective host-guest, metal chelate and charge-transfer com-plexations have been described (1,2). Recently, a chiral diamide-bonded stationary phase (I) has been prepared, which relies entirely on hydrogen bond associations for the material to be resolved. Despite the weak and flexible interaction in this system, direct resolution of enantiomeric N-acyl-fl-amino acid esters (II) was accomplished with the advent of a highly efficient column technology (2- ). 

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Once these empirical rules have been established, it is possible to link the melting temperatures of polymers to chain flexibility, interactions (cohesive energy densities), internal heats of fusion, and the possible presence of mesophases (see Fig. 2.103). Such analyses are of importance for the design of new polymers and of changes in existing polymers when there is a need to alter thermal stabiUty. 

Macromolecular docking or protein-protein docking is the computational modeling of complexes. There are so many structures that can be predicted due to flexibility of the ligand and the receptor. On the basis of these flexible interactions, these docked complexes were ranked and some scores were assigned to them and based on their molecular affinity best docked complex can be isolated as a final docked complex. 

Viscosity additives are aliphatic polymers of high molecular weight whose main chain is flexible. It is known that in a poor solvent, interactions between the elements making up the polymer chain are stronger than interactions between the solvent and the chain (Quivoron, 1978), to the point that the polymer chain adopts a ball of yarn configuration. The macromolecules in this configuration occupy a small volume. The viscosity of a solution being related to the volume occupied by the solute, the effect of polymers on the viscosity in a poor solvent will be small. 

Direct measurement of the interaction potential between tethered ligand (biotin) and receptor (streptavidin) have been reported by Wong et al [16] and demonstrate the possibility of controlling range and dynamics of specific biologic interactions via a flexible PEG-tether. 

Example I he distance between two ends of a large, flexible mole-cti le can provide in form ation about its structural properties or its interaction with solven t.. An alysis of an angle can reveal a h in ged motion in a rn acrorn olecu le. 

This kind of perfect flexibility means that C3 may lie anywhere on the surface of the sphere. According to the model, it is not even excluded from Cj. This model of a perfectly flexible chain is not a realistic representation of an actual polymer molecule. The latter is subject to fixed bond angles and experiences some degree of hindrance to rotation around bonds. We shall consider the effect of these constraints, as well as the effect of solvent-polymer interactions, after we explore the properties of the perfectly flexible chain. Even in this revised model, we shall not correct for the volume excluded by the polymer chain itself. 

At the beginning of this section we enumerated four ways in which actual polymer molecules deviate from the model for perfectly flexible chains. The three sources of deviation which we have discussed so far all lead to the prediction of larger coil dimensions than would be the case for perfect flexibility. The fourth source of discrepancy, solvent interaction, can have either an expansion or a contraction effect on the coil dimensions. To see how this comes about, we consider enclosing the spherical domain occupied by the polymer molecule by a hypothetical boundary as indicated by the broken line in Fig. 1.9. Only a portion of this domain is actually occupied by chain segments, and the remaining sites are occupied by solvent molecules which we have assumed to be totally indifferent as far as coil dimensions are concerned. The region enclosed by this hypothetical boundary may be viewed as a solution, an we next consider the tendency of solvent molecules to cross in or out of the domain of the polymer molecule. 

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