Random self-interacting chains: a mechanism for protein folding
- 21 November 1991
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 24 (22) , 5349-5362
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/24/22/019
Abstract
The authors investigate by Monte Carlo simulations the thermodynamic behaviour of a linear heteropolymer in which the interaction between different monomers contains a quenched random component. They show the existence, along with the usual coil and globule phases, of a new folded phase, characterized by long relaxation times and by the existence of few stable states.Keywords
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