Statistical mechanics of warm and cold unfolding in proteins
Condensed Matter
2009-10-30 v1 chao-dyn
Chaotic Dynamics
q-bio
Abstract
We present a statistical mechanics treatment of the stability of globular proteins which takes explicitly into account the coupling between the protein and water degrees of freedom. This allows us to describe both the cold and the warm unfolding, thus qualitatively reproducing the known thermodynamics of proteins.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9711291,
title = {Statistical mechanics of warm and cold unfolding in proteins},
author = {Alex Hansen and Mogens H. Jensen and Kim Sneppen and Giovanni Zocchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9711291},
year = {2009}
}
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5 pages, REVTex, 4 Postscript figures