## Abstract A simplified model of a polypeptide chain is described. Each residue is represented by a single interaction center. The energy of the chain and the force acting on each residue are given as a function of the residue coordinates. Terms to approximate the effect of solvent and the stabili
Mean field model for the helix-coil transition in polypeptides
β Scribed by Michael R. Emptage; Subir K. Bose
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0375-9601
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A simple way to incorporate the solvent-peptide interaction in any available theory of the helix-coil transition is developed. The competition between the intramolecular hydrogen bonding and the solvent-polymer hydrogen bonding is considered in multicomponent solvents where some of the components ha
## Conformation of Polypeptide i n the Helix-Coil Transition Region A recently published work by Go, Saito, and Ochiail presented a calculation of the mean values of the second (R2) and the fourth (R4) powers of the end-to-end distance of the polypeptide chain in the helix-coil transition region.
## Synopsis Methods for calculating the rate of cooperative transitions on a linear lattice, for which the helix-coil transition of polypeptides is an example, are reported. The problem is to determine the kinetic characteristics of the transition given the rate constants for a set of elementary s