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Offline rfaraday

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Entropy of protein folding
« on: September 18, 2007, 12:24:08 AM »
If you put a protein in a solution with a low dielectric constant (i.e. organic solvent) it will denature resulting in an increase in entropy (b/c of the presents of more states), but what happens to the entropy of the solvent on protein folding.
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Re: Entropy of protein folding
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2007, 02:26:39 AM »
What is a thermal effect of denaturation?
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Re: Entropy of protein folding
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2007, 08:15:25 AM »
what do you mean by thermal? The face that Hydrogen bonds are lost?
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Re: Entropy of protein folding
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2007, 09:42:43 AM »
Is it exothermic or endothermic?
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Re: Entropy of protein folding
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2007, 12:35:46 PM »
endothermic...it takes energy for hydrogen bonds to break
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