Аннотация
The effects of statistical monomer distribution and random substitution
on the properties of carbohydrate co-polymers is illustrated by calculating
the relative extension of different alginates selectively acetylated
on one of the residues. The calculations were carried out using the
rigid-residue approximation for primary sequences simulated for five
natural alginates. The effect of acetylation was taken into account
by calculating the perturbation of the nearest-neighbour residue
interactions that result from interactions of the substituent groups
with the polymer backbone. The calculations of the chain stiffness
of the five different alginate sources shows the experimentally determined
trends. Acetylation results in a restriction of the conformational
freedom of the backbone residues, yielding an increase of up to 20%
in the chain extension.
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