A Multicanonical Molecular Dynamics Study on a Simple Bead-Spring Model for Protein Folding

Details A Multicanonical Molecular Dynamics Study on a Simple Bead-Spring Model for Protein Folding A Multicanonical Molecular Dynamics Study on a Simple Bead-Spring Model for Protein Folding

2001-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104016v1

J.Phys.Soc.Jpn. 70, 1233 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages, 6 postscript figures, To appear in J.Phys.Soc.Jpn. Vol.70 No.5

Scientific paper

10.1143/JPSJ.70.1233

We have performed a multicanonical molecular dynamics simulation on a simple model protein.We have studied a model protein composed of charged, hydrophobic, and neutral spherical bead monomers.Since the hydrophobic interaction is considered to significantly affect protein folding, we particularly focus on the competition between effects of the Coulomb interaction and the hydrophobic interaction. We found that the transition which occurs upon decreasing the temperature is markedly affected by the change in both parameters and forms of the hydrophobic potential function, and the transition changes from first order to second order, when the Coulomb interaction becomes weaker.

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