## Buffer + ionization: Metastablilities of ## thiol peroxidases from model bactera ## (ECOLI, BACSU mesophile; AQUAE thermophile, ## THIDA acidophile, BACHD alkaliphile) library(CHNOSZ) basis("CHNOS+") organisms <- c("ECOLI", "AQUAE", "BACSU", "BACHD", "THIDA") species("TPX", organisms) # Create a buffer with our proteins in it mod.buffer("TPX", paste("TPX", organisms, sep = "_")) # Set up the buffered activities basis(c("CO2", "H2O", "NH3", "O2"), "TPX") a <- affinity(return.buffer = TRUE, T = 50) basis(c("CO2", "H2O", "NH3", "O2"), as.numeric(a[1:4])) a <- affinity(pH = c(4, 10, 300), T = c(40, 60, 300)) e <- equilibrate(a, normalize = TRUE) fill <- ZC.col(ZC(protein.formula(species()$name))) diagram(e, fill = fill) title(main = "Thiol peroxidases from bacteria") legend("topleft", describe.basis(basis = thermo()$basis[-6,]), bg = "slategray1", box.lwd = 0) ## Buffer + ionization: relative stabilities ## of E. coli sigma factors on a T-pH diagram # (sigma factors 24, 32, 38, 54, 70, i.e. # RpoE, RpoH, RpoS, RpoN, RpoD) proteins <- c("RPOE", "RP32", "RPOS", "RP54", "RPOD") basis("CHNOS+") basis("pH", 7.4) # Define and set the buffer mod.buffer("sigma", paste(proteins, "ECOLI", sep = "_")) basis(c("CO2", "NH3", "H2S", "O2"), "sigma") logact <- affinity(return.buffer = TRUE, T = 25) # Set the activities of the basis species to constants # corresponding to the buffer, and diagram the relative # stabilities as a function of T and pH basis(c("CO2", "NH3", "H2S", "O2"), as.numeric(logact)) species(paste(proteins, "ECOLI", sep = "_")) a <- affinity(pH = c(5, 10, 300), T = c(10, 40, 300)) fill <- ZC.col(ZC(protein.formula(species()$name))) diagram(a, normalize = FALSE, fill = fill) title(main = expression("Sigma factors in"~italic("E. coli"))) ptext <- c(describe.property("T", 25), describe.basis(c(2, 6), oneline = TRUE)) legend("topleft", legend = c("preset conditions:", ptext), bg = "slategray1", box.lwd = 0) btext <- describe.basis(c(1, 3, 4, 5), oneline = TRUE) legend("bottomright", legend = c("buffered conditions:", btext), bg = "slategray1", box.lwd = 0)