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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Influence of Pressure on The Low-Temperature Kinetics of Myoglobin
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe recombination of carbon monoxide and dioxygen to horse and sperm whale myoglobin at low temperatures (60 - 160K) was studied using high pressure flash photolysis techniques. By comparing the pressure dependence when the system is first frozen and then pressurized with the pressure dependence when the system is first pressurized and then frozen, the total volume change for the reaction can be resolved into an activation volume component and a conformational volume component. Strong evidence requiring both conformational volume and activation volume components was found. Over the pressure range studied (0.1 - 200 MPa) the observed volume changes were independent of the applied pressure.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Physics
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Sorensen, Larry Brice
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8026599
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/77188