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Short-time dynamics of polypeptides

Other Quantitative Biology 2016-08-14 v1

Abstract

The authors study the short-time dynamics of helix-forming polypeptide chains using an all-atom representation of the molecules and an implicit solvation model to approximate the interaction with the surrounding solvent. The results confirm earlier observations that the helix-coil transition in proteins can be described by a set of critical exponents. The high statistics of the simulations allows the authors to determine the exponents values with increased precision and support universality of the helix-coil transition in homopolymers and (helical) proteins.

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@article{arxiv.q-bio/0701016,
  title  = {Short-time dynamics of polypeptides},
  author = {Everaldo Arashiro and J. R. Drugowich de Felício and Ulrich H. E. Hansmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:q-bio/0701016},
  year   = {2016}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures

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