Difference between revisions of "Team:Aalto-Helsinki/Modeling micelle"
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<h2>Micelle structure</h2> | <h2>Micelle structure</h2> | ||
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<p>The micelle is formed by amphiphilic proteins that have both hydrophilic and hydrophobic parts. At the end of hydrophilic part there is short protein, a linker that attaches CAR or ADO to the amphiphilic part.</p> | <p>The micelle is formed by amphiphilic proteins that have both hydrophilic and hydrophobic parts. At the end of hydrophilic part there is short protein, a linker that attaches CAR or ADO to the amphiphilic part.</p> | ||
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<p>--picture of two amphiphilic proteins with ADO and CAR where all the above numbers are marked as well as total lengths--</p> | <p>--picture of two amphiphilic proteins with ADO and CAR where all the above numbers are marked as well as total lengths--</p> | ||
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<h2>Calculations</h2> | <h2>Calculations</h2> | ||
− | <p>We can estimate how many amphiphilic proteins we can theoretically fit in one micelle by calculating how big solid angles they take with attached enzymes. The easiest way to estimate the solid angles is to think the amphiphilic proteins linked with enzymes as cones. We can calculate the solid angle $\Omega$ for these by \[ \Omega = 2\pi \left( 1-\cos(\theta) \right), \] where $\theta$ is half of the apex angle. So for CAR we get \[ \Omega_{CAR} = 2\pi \left( 1-\cos\left( \arctan\left(\frac{3.5}{14.1}\right)\right) \right) \approx 0.185 \text{ rad} \] and for ADO \[ \Omega_{ADO} = 2\pi \left( 1-\cos\left( \arctan\left(\frac{2}{9.8}\right)\right) \right) \approx 0.127 \text{ rad}.\]</p> | + | <!--<p>We can estimate how many amphiphilic proteins we can theoretically fit in one micelle by calculating how big solid angles they take with attached enzymes. The easiest way to estimate the solid angles is to think the amphiphilic proteins linked with enzymes as cones. We can calculate the solid angle $\Omega$ for these by \[ \Omega = 2\pi \left( 1-\cos(\theta) \right), \] where $\theta$ is half of the apex angle. So for CAR we get \[ \Omega_{CAR} = 2\pi \left( 1-\cos\left( \arctan\left(\frac{3.5}{14.1}\right)\right) \right) \approx 0.185 \text{ rad} \] and for ADO \[ \Omega_{ADO} = 2\pi \left( 1-\cos\left( \arctan\left(\frac{2}{9.8}\right)\right) \right) \approx 0.127 \text{ rad}.\]</p> |
− | <p>--picture of this cone-like structure--</p> | + | <p>--picture of this cone-like structure--</p>--> |
<h1>Discussion</h1> | <h1>Discussion</h1> |
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