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Index
Peptides
amino acid structure and
hydrogen bond between
backbone groups of, 125
opoid, 511
sequences, 458
The Periodic Table of the
Elements, 71-72
The Periodic Table of the
Elements of Nature, 71-72
Perutz, M.E, 249, 252, 253, 261,
278,279, 324
Perutz mechanism, 278-279
pH
contraction energy and, 8
insolubilization of fiber
formation enhanced by
low, 302
mechanochemical transduction
and length dependence
on,342-343
muscle contraction activated
by, 247, 425
Pharmaceuticals
AGflp and controlled release of,
563
positively charged polymer
delivery of negatively
charged, 513, 514,
515-516, 517
protein-based polymer
controlled release of,
510-524
Phase phanges
ice melting, 104-107
water vaporization, 104-107
Phase separation
characterizations, 105
gross visualization of product,
473,
483^84
hydrocarbon unit separation
from water and, 6
inverse temperature transitions
and characterizations of,
105
motion produced by polymer,
104
polymer, 104
purification by, 482-483,484
temperature interval and
protein, 104,105
Phlebitis
cusp of insolubility, 284
insolubility , excess and, 240
Phosphate bonds
pKa shifts, hydrophobic-
induced and, 349
standard free energies and
hydrolysis of, 347-349
Phosphates
assays, 532
Y-, p-ATP, 416-419
elastic-contractile model
protein machines,
synthetic to energize,
49-50
AGap produced by y-, 416-419
substrate's movable cusp of
insolubility temperature
lowered by release of
inorganic, 320
Phospholipid structure, 77-79
Phosphorylation
AGHA
and,
142-143,
350
hydrophobic association and
initiated dimerization of,
53,54
hydrophobic association
effected by, 530-532
oxidative, 354
Trdivide moving with, 117
unfolding driven by, 53, 54
Photochemical transduction, 166
Photomechanical transduction,
166,175
Photosynthesis, 43^5, 354-356
carbohydrate production,
354-355
energy conversion with, 44
expressions, 43
key molecular players change
charge in, 45
respiration as reverse of,
43^4
synthetic model protein
machine emulating energy
conversions of, 48-50
pKa, 9,10
pKa shifts, 185-195,344-346
charged group competition
with hydrocarbon units
and,
9-10,123
dielectric constant, low and,
345-346
hydrophobic dissociation and,
195
hy drophobic-induced,
187-191,
349
low dielectric constant v. AG^^
and,344-346
model proteins as primary
source of, 192-195
phosphate bonds and
hydrophobic-induced, 349
positive cooperativity, 188,
194-195
stretch-induced, 185-186
Plant starches, 76
Plant waxes structure/synthesis,
81
Plastics, 492. See also
Biodegradable plastics;
Smart plastics
Plastic surgery, 508
Polar groups. See Vinegar-like
groups
Poly(GVGVP), 126-128
Polymers
chemically synthesized,
476-477
mass spectra to determine size
of, 485^88
motion produced by, 104
phase separation of, motion
produced by, 104
size determination of, 485-488
Polypeptides, 29
Polytricosapeptides, carboxylate-
containing, 190
Population, sustaining, 70-71
Pressure-volume energy, 156-157
Prigogine, I., 1, 26, 542, 567, 569,
572,
573
Order Out of Chaos: Man's
New Dialogue with
Nature, 228-229, 234, 235,
569
Prion proteins
amyloid fiber, 298-300
diseases, 296
fiber propagation, 300
GSS causative related
mutations and, 301-302
infectious, 297
insolubility induced by, 240
peptide unit and amyloid fiber,
299-300
scrapie, 302-303
p-structure, 298-299
p-structure of scrapie, 302-303
Tt-based single residue plot,
300-303