BOUNDARY ANALYSIS IN SEDIMENTATION TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS - A PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING SEDIMENTATION COEFFICIENT DISTRIBUTIONS USING THE TIME DERIVATIVE OF THE CONCENTRATION PROFILE
BOUNDARY ANALYSIS IN SEDIMENTATION TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS - A PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING SEDIMENTATION COEFFICIENT DISTRIBUTIONS USING THE TIME DERIVATIVE OF THE CONCENTRATION PROFILE
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DOI:
10.1016/0003-2697(92)90316-y
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发表时间:
1992-06-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
STAFFORD, WF
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作者:
STAFFORD, WF
A procedure is described for computing sedimentation coefficient distributions from the time derivative of the sedimentation velocity concentration profile. Use of the time derivative, ( ∂c ∂t )r, instead of the radial derivative, ( ∂c ∂r )t, is desirable because it is independent of time-invariant contributions to the optical baseline. Slowly varying baseline changes also are significantly reduced. An apparent sedimentation coefficient distribution (i.e., uncorrected for the effects of diffusion), g∗(s) , can be calculated from ( ∂c ∂t )ras [Formula: see text] where s is the sedimentation coefficient, ω is the angular velocity of the rotor, c0is the initial concentration, r is the radius, rmis the radius of the meniscus, and t is time. An iterative procedure is presented for computing g∗(s)tby taking into account the contribution to ( ∂c ∂t )rfrom the plateau region to give ( ∂c ∂t )corr. Values of g∗(s)tobtained this way are identical to those of g∗(s) calculated from the radial derivative to within the roundoff error of the computations. Use of ( ∂c ∂t )r, instead of ( ∂c ∂r )t, results in a significant increase (>10-fold) in the signal-to-noise ratio of data obtained from both the uv photoelectric scanner and Rayleigh optical systems of the analytical ultracentrifuge. The use of ( ∂c ∂t )rto compute apparent sedimentation coefficient distributions for purposes of boundary analysis is exemplified with an antigen-antibody system.