Nanotube Confinement Denatures Protein Helices
- 22 April 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 128 (19) , 6316-6317
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ja060917j
Abstract
In striking contrast to simple polymer physics theory, which does not account for solvent effects, we find that physical confinement of solvated biopolymers decreases solvent entropy, which in turn leads to a reduction in the organized structural content of the polymer. Since our theory is based on a fundamental property of water−protein statistical mechanics, we expect it to have broad implications in many biological and material science contexts.Keywords
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