Whether the extended law of corresponding states can be applied to equilibrium and non equilibrium features of the state diagram of a globular protein has been investigated by a team based in Switzerland and Sweden. The team say that for the globular protein lysozyme, the binodal and spinodal lines are governed by the integral features of the interaction potential, but the arrest line is mainly determined by the contact value.
Read the full paper (free until 9th February) here: Thomas Gibaud, Frédéric Cardinaux, Johan Bergenholtz, Anna Stradner and Peter Schurtenberger, Soft Matter, 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0SM01175D (Advance Article)
