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Dan W. Urry
Researcher at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Publications - 232
Citations - 10249
Dan W. Urry is an academic researcher from University of Alabama at Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gramicidin & Circular dichroism. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 232 publications receiving 9917 citations. Previous affiliations of Dan W. Urry include University of Alabama & University of Minnesota.
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Physical Chemistry of Biological Free Energy Transduction As Demonstrated by Elastic Protein-Based Polymers†
TL;DR: This article presents a general mechanism for protein folding and function and demonstrates the mechanism by designing model proteins capable of performing many of the energy conversions that sustain life and by designing diverse biomolecular machines and materials with promising applications for society.
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Entropic elastic processes in protein mechanisms. I. Elastic structure due to an inverse temperature transition and elasticity due to internal chain dynamics.
TL;DR: Elastomers have been prepared where the development of elastomeric force is shifted over a 40°C temperature range from a midpoint temperature of 30°C for the polypentapeptide to 10°C by increasing hydrophobicity with addition of a single CH2 moiety per pentamer and to 50°Cby decreasing hydrophOBicity.
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Molecular Machines: How Motion and Other Functions of Living Organisms Can Result from Reversible Chemical Changes
TL;DR: These model proteins and the mechanism they reveal provide insight into the molecular basis for diverse biological functions; they are models for the molecular machines that comprise the living organism, and they provide a new class of materials for both medical and nonmedical applications.
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Temperature of polypeptide inverse temperature transition depends on mean residue hydrophobicity
Dan W. Urry,Chi Hao Luan,Timothy M. Parker,D. Channe Gowda,Kari U. Prasad,Michael C. Reid,Ahmad Safavy +6 more
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Free energy transduction in polypeptides and proteins based on inverse temperature transitions.
TL;DR: The set of pairwise free energy transductions that can occur in biological systems involve the intensive variables of temperature, pressure, mechanical force, chemical potential and electrochemical potential.