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With the help of some formal considerations and some approximations it is shown that binding of small substrate molecules to macromolecules is a phenomenon which can be interpreted either as phase transition or as chemical reaction. The given method can be used to calculate the temperature dependence of saturation curves, e.g. for the hemoglobinoxygen system. So it might be possible to decide which model of the macromolecule is the most realistic one.
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Schröter, J. Many particle systems with binding: Phase transition and chemical reaction. Z Physik B 20, 211–214 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01315693
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