A theoretical study of the dielectric constant of protein
- 1 September 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Protein Engineering, Design and Selection
- Vol. 2 (3) , 177-183
- https://doi.org/10.1093/protein/2.3.177
Abstract
The dielectric properties of a protein molecule were investigated by calculating a ‘local dielectric constant’ with the aid of normal mode analysis. This local dielectric constant was calculated from the electronic polarization of atoms and the orientational polarization of local dipoles. The former was obtained from atomic polarizations of the whole atoms in a protein molecule. The latter was determined from the fluctuation–dissipation theorem. The degree of dipole fluctuation was calculated from the positional fluctuation of each atom obtained by the normal mode analysis. Assuming a minimum volume for a continuum model, the resulting local dielectric constants ranged from 1 to 20 inside the protein.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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