Living organisms are made of very large organic molecules called macromolecules (-macro is Greek for large or long; it's the opposite of -micro). Most macromolecules are polymers— long strands of repeating sub
Chemical incorporation of functional dye molecules into polymer structures can produce stimuli-responsive polymers with unique functions that are impossible for the individual dyes or polymers and can render them self-standing and tangible materials, which are generally not constructible when using only ...
Are molecules composed of smaller subunits linked together called monomers or polymers? Explain. Are simple sugars monomers or polymers? Explain. Explain how both nucleic acids and proteins are polymers.Describe the monomers that make up the polymers. ...
The treadmilling speed Vz of each FtsZ filament is drawn stochastically from an experimentally measured distribution13. Note that we do not model explicitly the stochastic on-reactions and off-reactions of individual subunits of an FtsZ filament, because such stochasticity is reflected in the ...
of the fluid are the electric charges of the polymer subunits and whether or not these subunits like to interact with water — that is, whether they are hydrophilic or hydrophobic. The synthetic polymers were designed to match those properties, but not other characteristics of the natural ...
This non-specific property has shown to be a class of promising anti-infective agents that are assumed to defer long-term resistance development compared to small molecule antibiotics. 2.1. Mechanisms of action Essentially, all types of living cells comprise a cytoplasmic membrane made of lipid ...
The coming and going of individual ESCRT-III proteins drives sequential changes in the structure of the composite polymer [∗∗67, ∗∗68, ∗69], which are thought to guide the membrane through a series of different states from deformation, to construction and fission. Importantly, a ...
These roles are possible because the cytoskeletal and cytomotive filaments provide long range order from small subunits. Studies of these filaments are therefore of central importance to understanding prokaryotic cell biology. The wide variation in subunit and polymer structure and its relationship with ...
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which individual particles of the polymer are fused together when subjected to heat or to a combination of heat and work on the polymer and the maximum temperature at which the polymer can be processed before degradation of the polymer has an unacceptable effect on the properties of the polymer...