Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2004-04-16
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
40 pages, 9 figures
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1786915
A theory is set up of spherical proteins interacting by screened electrostatics and constant adhesion, in which the effective adhesion parameter is optimized by a variational principle for the free energy. An analytical approach to the second virial coefficient is first outlined by balancing the repulsive electrostatics against part of the bare adhesion. A theory similar in spirit is developed at nonzero concentrations by assuming an appropriate Baxter model as the reference state. The first-order term in a functional expansion of the free energy is set equal to zero which determines the effective adhesion as a function of salt and protein concentrations. The resulting theory is shown to have fairly good predictive power for the ionic-strength dependence of both the second virial coefficient and the osmotic pressure or compressibility of lysozyme up to about 0.2 volume fraction.
Odijk Theo
Prinsen Peter
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