Thermodynamic stability of folded proteins against mutations

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1997-09-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9709078v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

5 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.3530

By balancing the average energy gap with its typical change due to mutations for protein-like heteropolymers with M residues, we show that native states are unstable to mutations on a scale M* ~ (lambda/sigma_mu)^(1/zeta_s), where lambda is the dispersion in the interaction free energies and sigma_mu their typical change. Theoretical bounds and numerical estimates (based on complete enumeration on four lattices) of the instability exponent zeta_s are given. Our analysis suggests that a limiting size of single-domain proteins should exist, and leads to the prediction that small proteins are insensitive to random mutations.

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