There are sometimes weird reversible cause-effect relationships between
phenomena -- at the moment the only one that comes to mind is the Peltier
effect (say you heat one end of an electrical conductor and chill the
other; the electrons at the hot end wind up with a higher electrical
potential. conversely, you can apply a voltage across certain
semiconductor n/p couples and get hot on one side and cold on the other
(useful for cooling Pentiums)). If anyone has a more broadly known
example of this, I'd welcome the help. Maybe fluorescence and the
photoelectric effect?
But my real question/idea is, I wonder if there's anything that we
measure or postulate in proteins (say, CD or helix end-effects) that could
actually be turned around to influence the behavior (folding, whatever) of
the proteins.
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Lou Hom >K'93
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