3.052 Nanomechanics of Materials and Biomaterials Prof. Christine Ortiz DMSE, RM Phone : (617) WWW : LECTURE #18 : ELASTICITY OF SINGLE MACROMOLECULES III Nanomechanics of Biopolymers
Review : Elasticity Models for Single Polymer Chains Freely-Jointed Chain (FJC) (Kuhn and Grün, 1942 James and Guth, 1943) Extensible Freely-Jointed Chain (Smith, et. al, 1996) Worm-Like Chain (WLC) (Kratky and Porod, 1943 Fixman and Kovac, 1973 Bustamante, et. al 1994) Extensible Worm-Like Chain (Odijk, 1995) Gaussian : F elastic = [3k B T /L contour a] r Non-Gaussian : F elastic = (k B T/a) L*(r/L contour ) low stretches : Gaussian, L*(x)= “inverse Langevin function”= 3x+(9/5)x 3 +(297/175)x 5 +(1539/875)x high stretches : F elastic =(k B T/a)(1-r/L contour ) -1 Non-Gaussian : F elastic = (k B T/a) L*(r/L total ) where : L total = L contour + nF elastic /k segment Exact : Numerical solution Interpolation Formula : F elastic = (k B T/p)[1/4(1-r/L contour ) -2 -1/4+r/L contour ] low stretches : Gaussian, F elastic = [3k B T /2pL contour ] r high stretches : F elastic = (k B T/4p)(1-r/L contour ) -2 Interpolation Formula : F elastic = (k B T/p)[1/4(1-r/L total ) -2 -1/4 + r/L total ] low stretches : Gaussian high stretches : r = L contour [1-0.5(k B T /F elastic p) 1/2 + F elastic /k segment ] F F r F elastic F F r F F r (a, n) (a, n, k segment ) (p, n) (p, n, k segment ) MODELSCHEMATICFORMULAS F r F elastic F
Force Spectroscopy Experiment on Single Polymer Chains
Force (nN) Distance (nm) Typical Force Spectroscopy Experiment on Single Polystyrene Chain retracting approaching L chain 180 nm AFM probe tip substrate V IV II III VI I III CHCH 2 n
Force Spectroscopy Experiment on a Single Polystyrene Chain : APPROACH I. No Tip-Sample Interaction L o 2R F D (nm) F (nN) RFRF I. LoLo end-anchored polymer brushes, L o 6R F (H. J. Taunton, et al. Nature 1988, 332, 713) adsorbed polymer layers, L o 3R F (J. Klein, et al. Nature 1984, 308, 836)
Force Spectroscopy Experiment on a Single Polystyrene Chain : APPROACH II. Compression of Polymer Chain and Chain Segment Adsorption to Tip (VDW) D (nm) F (nN) L o 2R F II. LoLo
Force Spectroscopy Experiment on a Single Polystyrene Chain : APPROACH / RETRACT III. No Jump-To-Contact* Constant Compliance Regime D (nm) F (nN) III. (* polymer screens tip-surface VDW interaction)
Force Spectroscopy Experiment on a Single Polystyrene Chain : RETRACT D (nm) F (nN) L o 2R F IV LoLo
Force Spectroscopy Experiment on a Single Polystyrene Chain : RETRACT L o 2R F L chain D (nm) F (nN) V L chain LoLo F chain
Force Spectroscopy Experiment on a Single Polystyrene Chain : RETRACT D (nm) F (nN) VI F chain F adsorption F bond Since F adsorption << F bond (AU-S) = 2-3 nN* chain always desorbs from tip (*based on Morse potential using E b(AU-S) =170 kJ/mol; Ulman, A. Chem. Rev. 1996, 96, 1553)
F chain (nN) Comparison of Experimental Data on Polystyrene with the Freely-Jointed Chain Model (a = 0.68 nm) Distance (nm) n
Muscle Elasticity (*MARSZALEK, et. al Nature 402, (1999)) (*Cell and Molecular Biology, G. Karp) SARCOMERE TITIN Actin TITIN Myosin Nebulin
PROTEIN STRUCTURE : TITIN secondary structure : local chain configuration -helix primary structure : sequence of amino acids chemical structure : atomic order, chemical bonds (e.g. peptide) tertiary structure : additional chain folding over longer distances : globular domain “MODULAR” STRUCTURE linear array of folded domains in series -sheet
Molecular Elasticity of Titin (*Rief, et al. Science 1997, 276, 1109)
Molecular Elasticity of Titin (*Rief, et al. Science 1997, 276, 1109)
Molecular Elasticity of Titin (*Rief, et al. Science 1997, 276, 1109)
Molecular Elasticity of Titin (* )