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Entropy-Driven Processes in Biology - Polymerization of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Protein and Similar Reactions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1975)
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Entropy-Driven Processes in Biology - Polymerization of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Protein and Similar Reactions (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1975)
Series: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Molekularbiologie, Biochemie und Biophysik, 20
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The purpose of this monograph is to bring together under one cover
results of research on phenomena drawn from the fields of
chemistry, biochemistry, bio physics, virology,and cell biology.
The processes and reactions considered have one important feature
in common: they are endothermic and, therefore, entropy driven.
They are, in the main, reversible reactions leading to the
formation of large structures, some of which play critical roles in
life processes. If one thinks only of the subunits and of the
structures they form upon poly merization, it seems to be a
contradiction that such reactions can be driven by an increase in
entropy; entropy is a measure of disorder. The increase in entropy
must come from some other source, usually from the release of
something coincidental to polymerization. That something has been
shown to be water for the case of the polymerization of tobacco
mosaic virus protein. Because of the remarkable similarity of the
other processes to this one, it is a permissable inference that the
release of water is the source of the entropy increase and
therefore the driving force for all of them. The reactions and
processes brought together in this book are still the sub jects of
active research. ;~ny of the detailed interpretations presented
here must be regarded as tentative, subject to modification as new
information becomes available. However, the main characteristic of
each reaction or pro cess, its endothermic or entropy-driven
nature, is well established in all but one or two instances.
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