Negative binding capacity and bistability in one-component systems
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 92 (5) , 3241-3243
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.457880
Abstract
The apparent violation of the second law at the level of individual site binding phenomena in a biological macromolecule working as an enzyme is shown to induce bistability in a simple one-component system.Keywords
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