Critical aspects of hierarchical protein folding
Abstract
We argue that the first order folding transitions of proteins observed at physiological chemical conditions end in a critical point for a given temperature and chemical potential of the surrounding water. We investigate this critical point using a hierarchical Hamiltonian and determine its universality class. This class differs qualitatively from those of other known models.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 1998
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9801124
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/9801124
- Bibcode:
- 1998cond.mat..1124H
- Keywords:
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- Soft Condensed Matter;
- Chaotic Dynamics
- E-Print:
- 3 pages RevTeX, 6 Postscript figures