• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.33-40
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• 2004

Thermodynamic properties of ubiquitin transient folding intermediate were studied by measuring folding kinetics in varying temperatures and denaturant concentrations. Through quantitative kinetic modeling, the equilibrium constant, hence folding free energy, between unfolded state and intermediate state in several different temperatures were calculated. Using these values, the thermodynamic parameters were estimated. The heat capacity change $({\Delta}C_p)$ upon formation of folding intermediate from unfolded state were estimated to be around 80% of the overall folding reaction, indicating that ubiquitin folding intermediate is highly compact. At room temperature, the changes of enthalpy and entropy upon formation of the intermediate state were observed to be positive. The positive enthalpy change suggests that the breaking up of the highly ordered solvent structure surrounding hydrophobic side-chain upon formation of intermediate state. This positive enthalpy was compensated for by the positive entropy change of whole system so that formation of transient intermediate has negative free energy.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.443-448
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• 1998

The thermodynamic parameters for the interaction of metal ions with dibenzo-16-crown-5 and its derivatives have been determined by solution calorimetry in methanol at 25$^{\circ}C$. Thermodynamic properties of log K, ${\Delta}H$, and $T{\Delta}S$ have been determined for the complexation of metal cations by dibenzo-16-crown-5 and its derivatives. Dibenzo-16-crown-5 and its derivatives have been studied as metal cations carrier in bulk liquid membrane (BLM) and supported liquid membrane (SLM) system. $Ag^+$ has been much more transported using dibenzo-16-crown-5 derivatives as carriers and several other metal cations have been small transported using carrier in BLM and SLM system. Ligand structure, the length of side arm, donor atom, stability constant, and carrier concentration are also important parameters in the transport of cations.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.143-148
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• 2015

In some pathogenic bacteria, there are RNA thermometers, which regulate the production of virulence associated factors or heat shock proteins depending on temperature changes. Like a riboswitches, RNA thermometers are located in the 5'-untranslated region and involved translational gene regulatory mechanism. RNA thermometers block the ribosome-binding site and start codon area under the $37^{\circ}C$ within their secondary structure. After bacterial infection, increased the temperature in the host causes conformations changes of RNA, and the ribosome-binding site is exposed for translational initiation. Because structural differences between open and closed forms of RNA thermometers are mainly mediated by base pairing changes, NMR spectroscopy is a very useful method to study these thermodynamically changing RNA structure. In this review, we briefly provide a fundamental function of RNA thermometers, and also suggest a proper NMR experiments for studying RNA thermometers.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.136-142
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• 1966

The Transient State Theory of Significant Liquid Structure has been successfully extended to binary mixture, benzene-cyclohexane system, which gives positive deviation from Raoult's law. The partition function has been derived, and from it various thermodynamic properties, such as total and partial vapor pressures, molar volumes, and excess entropies have been calculated at the temperatures $303.15^{\circ},\;\313.15^{\circ},\;and\;343.15^{\circ}K$. The calculated values agree satisfactorily with the experimental data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.66-69
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• 1998

Most segmented polyurethanes are prepared from a two-step method where the polyol is end-capped with an excess of diisocyanate, followed by chain extension with stoichiometric amount of chain extender, In the final polymer the hard and soft segments tend to segregate, due to thermodynamic immiscibility and the differences in chemical structure between hard and soft segments, and produce a phase separated morphology of hard segment-rich and soft segment-rich phase. (omitted)

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.179-181
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• 1963

The partition function of liquid halogens is developed applying the significant liquid structure theory proposed by H. Eyring and co-workers. The parameters in the partition function are determined by triple point technique which was proposed by the authors in the previous paper, and also the thermodynamic properties and the surface tension are calculated by the method therein.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.174-178
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• 1963

The new method to determine the parameters in the liquid partition function of H. Eyring and co-workers is proposed, in which method the equilibrium condition of the three phases and the boundary condition of the liquid partition function at the triple point are used. The calculated thermodynamic properties using the new determined parameters are agreed well with the observed values.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.30 no.7
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• pp.1667-1670
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• 2009

• Proceedings of the Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute Conference
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• 2006.09a
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• pp.60-61
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• 2006

In this contribution, we attempted a theoretical analysis on the validity of the widely-accepted idea that rough and singular surfaces can coexist in a crystal at equilibrium. By manipulating the Cahn and Hoffman capillarity vector, the conclusion that a crystal at equilibrium should be composed either of singular surfaces or of rough ones was reached.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.55-62
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• 2017

It is now well established that RNAs exhibit fundamental roles in regulating cellular processes. Many of these RNAs do not exist in a single conformation. Rather, they undergo dynamic transitions among many different conformations to mediate critical interactions with other biomolecules such as proteins, RNAs, DNAs, or small molecules. Here, we briefly review NMR techniques that describe the dynamic behavior of RNA by determining structural, kinetic, and thermodynamic properties.