Single Chain Studies

SINGLE CHAIN STUDIES Simple Polymer Chain Models... 

Fig. 10.15 Comparison of the phase diagrams of telechelic associating polymers (a) random hydration (cr = 1.0) for telechelic PEO, (b) cooperative hydration (a =0.3) for telechelic PNIPAM. Spinodal lines (solid lines) and sol-gel transition hnes (broken lines) are shown. The various curves correspond to polymers of different molecular weights. Other parameters are fixed at the values obtained from the single-chain study. (Reprinted with permission from Ref. [38].)...

While the static aspects of the adsorption of single chains at walls have been studied for a long time [2], the dynamic properties of adsorbed polymers have received much less attention [30-32]. Most work considers the kinetics of either adsorption or desorption of polymers at a solid surface [31], or the... 

Important members of this toxin family are Clostridium difficile toxins A and B, which are implicated in antibiotics-associated diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis. The large clostridial cytotoxins are single-chain toxins with molecular masses of 250-308 kDa. The enzyme domain is located at the N terminus. The toxins are taken up from an acidic endosomal compartment. They glucosylate RhoA at Thr37 also, Rac and Cdc42 are substrates. Other members of this toxin family such as Clostridium sordellii lethal toxin possess a different substrate specificity and modify Rac but not Rho. In addition, Ras subfamily proteins (e.g., Ras, Ral, and Rap) are modified. As for C3, they are widely used as tools to study Rho functions [2] [4]. 

In what follows, we use simple mean-field theories to predict polymer phase diagrams and then use numerical simulations to study the kinetics of polymer crystallization behaviors and the morphologies of the resulting polymer crystals. More specifically, in the molecular driving forces for the crystallization of statistical copolymers, the distinction of comonomer sequences from monomer sequences can be represented by the absence (presence) of parallel attractions. We also devote considerable attention to the study of the free-energy landscape of single-chain homopolymer crystallites. For readers interested in the computational techniques that we used, we provide a detailed description in the Appendix. ... 

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