Sedimentation Velocity Analytical Ultracentrifugation
Discrete Species and Size-Distributions of Macromolecules and Particles
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Sedimentation Velocity Analytical Ultracentrifugation
Discrete Species and Size-Distributions of Macromolecules and Particles
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A follow-up to the experimental and instrumental aspects described in Basic Principles of Analytical Ultracentrifugation, the volume Sedimentation Velocity Analytical Ultracentrifugation: Discrete Species and Size-Distributions of Macromolecules and Particles describes the theory and practice of data analysis. Mathematical models for the sedimentation process and the evolution of detected signals are developed in a comprehensive framework, jointly with the description of current and historical strategies for how to extract from noisy experimental data the physical parameters of interest, such as size, mass, and shape, composition, and polydispersity of sedimenting particles.
The methods are extensively illustrated, and supported with practical applications, as well as cross-references where to find the methods in the public domain software SEDFIT and SEDPHAT. The systems covered are discrete or polydisperse mixtures of sedimenting molecules or particles in dilute solution, such as proteins and other biomolecules and their stable complexes, man-made polymers, and nanoparticles, observed in different optical systems. A useful reference for researchers and graduate students of macromolecular disciplines, these methods form the essential foundation for the analysis of dynamic interacting systems, which are covered in the volume Sedimentation Velocity Analytical Ultracentrifugation: Interacting Systems.
Software referenced in the book is available for download at: https://sedfitsedphat.nibib.nih.gov/default.aspx
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1 ■ Basic Analysis Principles
- CHAPTER 2 ■ Sedimentation of Discrete Non-Interacting Particles
- CHAPTER 3 ■ Properties of Sedimentation Coefficient Distributions
- CHAPTER 4 ■ Distributions of Non-Diffusing Particles
- CHAPTER 5 ■ Distributions of Diffusing Particles
- CHAPTER 6 ■ Sedimentation Coefficient Distributions from Boundary Derivatives and Extrapolations
- CHAPTER 7 ■ Multi-Component Distributions
- CHAPTER 8 ■ Practical Analysis of Non-Interacting Systems
- APPENDIX A ■ Numerical Solutions of the Lamm Equation
- APPENDIX B ■ Calculating Distributions
- Bibliography
- Index