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Lattice tube model of proteins

Biomolecules 2009-11-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We present a new lattice model for proteins that incorporates a tube-like anisotropy by introducing a preference for mutually parallel alignments in the conformations. The model is demonstrated to capture many aspects of real proteins.

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@article{arxiv.q-bio/0410031,
  title  = {Lattice tube model of proteins},
  author = {Jayanth R. Banavar and Marek Cieplak and Amos Maritan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:q-bio/0410031},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Phys. Rev. Lett. in press; 4 figures