according to the bronsted definition, any compound which has a hydrogen atom is an acid, since itmay be lost as a proton. a thermodynamical cycle is proposed to calculate absolute pka values forbronsted acids in aqueous solution. the equilibrium of dissociation of a bronsted acid depends onthe interaction of the acid and its conjugate base with solvent molecules. there fore the pka valuedepends...

The interaction of the immobilized triazine dye Cibacron Blue 3G-A with rat, rabbit, sheep, goat, bovine and human serum albumins was studied by affinity gel electrophoresis. Dissociation constants were estimated in each instance and showed human serum albumin to have a significantly higher affinity for the dye than did albumin from any other species. Pretreatment of the defatted proteins with ...

A spectrophotometric method was used to determine the acidity constant of 4'-carboxybenzo-24-crown-8 in 52% (w/w) ethanol-water mixture. The acid dissociation constant, Ka, was found to increase in the presence of Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+ and Tl+ ions. The formation constants of the resulting 1:1 complexes between the carboxycrown a...

A graph is presented which permits facile determination of the dissociation constant for a macromolecule-ligand complex from gel filtration results; it can be used without a detailed understanding of the remainder of the text. When a solution of macromolecule and radioactive ligand is subjected to gel filtration, the amount of ligand associated with the eluted macromolecule is easily measured. ...

Ca2+ + Mg2+-dependent ATPase from sarcoplasmic reticulum was inhibited by preincubation with vanadate. When the inhibited enzyme was preincubated in the presence of vanadate and assayed in its absence, a slow reactivation process was observed. This slow, hysteretic, process was exploited to study the influence of Ca2+ and ATP on the dissociation of vanadate. Ca2+ alone slowly displaced vanadate...

The importance of the N-terminal region of human cystatin C or chicken cystatin for the kinetics of interactions of the inhibitors with four cysteine proteinases was characterized. The association rate constants for the binding of recombinant human cystatin C to papain, ficin, actinidin and recombinant rat cathepsin B were 1.1 x 10(7), 7.0 x 10(6), 2.4 x 10(6) and 1.4 x 10(6) M-1.s-1, whereas t...