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Differential Scanning Calorimetry 115<br />

Fig. 2. The partial molar-heat capacity of chicken ovomucoid at pH 3.3 obtained<br />

experimentally (thick solid line) deconvoluted into three independent transitions (thin<br />

solid lines) with the thermodynamic parameters for individual transitions shown.<br />

customary to use lower heating rates (30–60°/h). Fibrillar proteins such as<br />

collagen or myosin, which exhibit very narrow transitions, a heating rate of<br />

10–20°/h is most suitable.<br />

2. Materials<br />

1. The DSC instrument designed to study biological systems must be extremely<br />

sensitive and require small amounts of the material, 0.1–1 mg/mL of protein<br />

solution. Currently there are two commercial DSC instruments, Nano-DSC from<br />

Calorimetric Science Corporation (Provo, UT) and VP-DSC from Microcal Inc.<br />

(Northhampton, MA). Both of these instruments are fully automated for control,<br />

data collection, handling, and analysis using PC computers. VP-DSC appears to<br />

have higher sensitivity and better baseline stability and is supplied with the superb<br />

ORIGIN graphics software.<br />

2. Syringe with precut needle used to wash the cell and load the sample (provided<br />

by the manufacturer).<br />

3. Spectrophotometer and quartz cells of different path length, for those cases in<br />

which the protein concentration is determined spectrophotometrically.<br />

4. Dialysis bags with molecular weight cutoff depending on the molecular weights<br />

of the protein to be dialyzed.<br />

5. Highly pure protein sample.

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