title: Chemical oscillations in closed macromolecular systems.
abstract: A cycle of irreversible, first-order, autocatalytic reactions among different states of a polyfunctional macromolecule, subject to the conservation of mass, can display stable chemical oscillations. This introduces a class of nonlinear dynamic models for energy transduction in closed macromolecular systems.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Fisica, Universitá Cattolica, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Di Cera
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Phillipson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wyman
mesh_terms: D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D007700:Kinetics; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008954:Models, Biological; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D046911:Macromolecular Substances