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View SchemaIs there a universality of the helix-coil transition in protein models?
| Authors | Josh P. Kemp, Ulrich H. E. Hansmann, Zheng Y. Chen |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0003017 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0003017 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s100510051138 |
Abstract
The similarity in the thermodynamic properties of two completely different theoretical models for the helix-coil transition is examined critically. The first model is an all-atomic representation for a poly-alanine chain, while the second model is a minimal helix-forming model that contains no system specifics. Key characteristics of the helix-coil transition, in particular, the effective critical exponents of these two models agree with each other, within a finite-size scaling analysis.
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