Dynamics of the salt-induced random coil to helix transition in segmented ι-carrageenan

1 January 1978

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 12,p. 515-516
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39780000515

Abstract

The coil to double helix transition of segmented ι-carrageenan was induced by 0·1 mol dm^–3 NaCl and observed by a polarimetric stopped-flow technique; activation parameters for helix nucleation are strikingly different from those observed in polynucleotide double helix formation.