We report here kinetic and thermodynamic studies on differential isomerization of intramolecular Pyr*Pur.Pyr triplexes in supercoiled plasmids. Two structural isomers of the triplex exist: one with the 3'-half of the Pyr strand as the third strand (H-y3 form) and the other with the 5'-half as the third strand (H-y5 form). The relative populations of the two triplex isomers was determined using ...

A nanocomposite membrane Cu2+ ion-selective electrode has been constructed using a new compound ethyl 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-4-(4-methoxyphenyl)-6-methyl-2-oxopyrimidine-5-carboxylat (ETMOC) as a neutral ionophore. The electrode works properly. It responds to Cu2+ ion with a sensitivity of 29.5 ± 0.2 mV/decade over the range 1.0 × 10−9 to 5.0 × 10−1M at p...

The kinetic characteristics of soil urease have attracted great attention, but little information was available on its kinetic and thermodynamic behaviors as affected by urease inhibitors and temperature. With black soil (Pachic Udic Mollisol) in Heilongjiang Province of Northeast China as a test soil, an incubation test was conducted to investigate the effect of urease inhibitors (hydroquinone...

A simple model of the kinetics of protein folding is presented. The reaction coordinate is the "correctness" of a configuration compared with the native state. The model has a gap in the energy spectrum, a large configurational entropy, a free energy barrier between folded and partially folded states, and a good thermodynamic folding transition. Folding kinetics is described by a master equatio...

Abstract: Life is a complex biological phenomenon represented by numerous chemical, physical and biological processes performed by a biothermodynamic system/cell/organism. Both living organisms and inanimate objects are subject to aging, a biological and physicochemical process characterized by changes in biological and thermodynamic state. Thus, the same physical laws govern processes in both ...

We study the universal thermodynamic properties of systems consisting of many coupled oscillators operating in the vicinity of a homogeneous oscillating instability. In the thermodynamic limit, the Hopf bifurcation is a dynamic critical point far from equilibrium described by a statistical field theory. We perform a perturbative renormalization group study, and show that at the critical point a...

Abstract. In this paper we investigate the thermodynamic and the Stokes efficiency for a broad class of models for molecular motors. We use path-space formalism and time-symmetry breaking arguments to show that both efficiencies are smaller than 1. These arguments are model-independant and are thus applicable on a wide range of models. We also consider the motor as a ratchet which gives more bo...

Glass forming materials are characterized by a complex relaxation pattern, which evolves over several time decades. Dielectric spectroscopy has proven particularly useful for studying such scenario as it is able to monitor the dielectric dynamics of a system over a range up to 16 time decades. In this work we study effect of thermodynamic history on activation volume of secondary relaxation ins...

application of cogeneration systems based gas turbine for heat and power production is increasing. because of finite natural energy resources and increasing energy demand the cost effective design of energy systems is essential. cgam problem as a cogeneration system is considered here for analyzing. two new approaches are considered, first in thermodynamic model of gas turbine and cogeneration ...