TY - GEN A1 - Walkowiak, Jacek A1 - Lu, Yan A1 - Gradzielski, Michael A1 - Zauscher, Stefan A1 - Ballauff, Matthias T1 - Thermodynamic analysis of the uptake of a protein in a spherical polyelectrolyte brush T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - A thermodynamic study of the adsorption of Human Serum Albumin (HSA) onto spherical polyelectrolyte brushes (SPBs) by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) is presented. The SPBs are composed of a solid polystyrene core bearing long chains of poly(acrylic acid). ITC measurements done at different temperatures and ionic strengths lead to a full set of thermodynamicbinding constants together with the enthalpies and entropies of binding. The adsorption of HSA onto SPBs is described with a two-step model. The free energy of binding Delta Gb depends only weakly on temperature because of a marked compensation of enthalpy by entropy. Studies of the adsorbed HSA by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) demonstrate no significant disturbance in the secondary structure of the protein. The quantitative analysis demonstrates that counterion release is the major driving force for adsorption in a process where proteins become multivalent counterions of the polyelectrolyte chains upon adsorption. A comparison with the analysis of other sets of data related to the binding of HSA to polyelectrolytes demonstrates that the cancellation of enthalpy and entropy is a general phenomenon that always accompanies the binding of proteins to polyelectrolytes dominated by counterion release. KW - ITC KW - spherical polyelectrolyte brushes KW - enthalpy-entropy compensation (EEC) KW - proteins KW - thermodynamics Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-517307 SN - 1866-8372 IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmidt, Joachim T1 - Die Arbeit bei irreversibler Druck-Volumen-Änderung BT - Varianten der Berechnung N2 - For the calculation of the work in an irreversible pressure-volume change, we propose approxima-tions, which in contrast to the usual representation in the literature reflect the work performed during expansion and compression symmetrically. The calculations are based on the Reversible-Share-Theorem: Is used the force to overcome for calculating the work, so it captures only the configurational reversible work share. KW - physics KW - physical chemistry KW - thermodynamics KW - irreversible volume-change KW - reversible-share-theorem KW - total work KW - reversible work share KW - irreversible work share Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-74931 ER -