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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 16.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2008;488:117–127. doi: 10.1007/978-1-60327-475-3_8

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic of the measurement and reference cells inside the adiabatic housing of the ITC. The measurement and reference cells have an active volume of about 1.4 ml. The instrument maintains a constant temperature difference (dT) between the measurement and reference cells. Aliquots of a ligand solution are added to the measurement cell using a syringe controlled by a motorized injection system. Binding of the ligand to the macromolecule releases or consumes heat.