A protein model exhibiting three folding transitions

Details A protein model exhibiting three folding transitions A protein model exhibiting three folding transitions

2000-07-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0007130v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

13 pages LaTeX, 4 Postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00611-7

We explain the physical basis of a model for small globular proteins with water interactions. The water is supposed to access the protein interior in an "all-or-none" manner during the unfolding of the protein chain. As a consequence of this mechanism (somewhat speculative), the model exhibits fundamental aspects of protein thermodynamics, as cold, and warm unfolding of the polypeptide chain, and hence decreasing the temperature below the cold unfolding the protein folds again, accordingly the heat capacity has three characteristic peaks. The cold and warm unfolding has a sharpness close to a two-state system, while the cold folding is a transition where the intermediate states in the folding is energetical close to the folded/unfolded states, yielding a less sharp transition. The entropy of the protein chain causes both the cold folding and the warm unfolding.

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