Hydrogen Bonds in Polymer Folding

Details Hydrogen Bonds in Polymer Folding Hydrogen Bonds in Polymer Folding

2000-03-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0003307v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1031

The thermodynamics of a homopolymeric chain with both Van der Waals and highly-directional hydrogen bond interaction is studied. The effect of hydrogen bonds is to reduce dramatically the entropy of low-lying states and to give raise to long-range order and to conformations displaying secondary structures. For compact polymers a transition is found between helix-rich states and low-entropy sheet-dominated states. The consequences of this transition for protein folding and, in particular, for the problem of prions are discussed.

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