Statistical mechanics of warm and cold unfolding in proteins

Preprint

27 November 1997

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9711291

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.

Keywords

STATISTICAL MECHANICS
MECHANICS TREATMENT
DEGREES OF FREEDOM
GLOBULAR PROTEINS
THERMODYNAMICS
COLD UNFOLDING
WARM AND COLD
QUALITATIVELY
STABILITY

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Version 1, 1997-11-27, ArXiv
Published version: Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter, 6 (1), 157.

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