Enumerating Designing Sequences in the HP Model

Details Enumerating Designing Sequences in the HP Model Enumerating Designing Sequences in the HP Model

2002-01-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201009v1

J. Biol. Phys. 28 (2002) 1-15

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

18 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

The hydrophobic/polar HP model on the square lattice has been widely used to investigate basics of protein folding. In the cases where all designing sequences (sequences with unique ground states) were enumerated without restrictions on the number of contacts, the upper limit on the chain length N has been 18-20 because of the rapid exponential growth of the numbers of conformations and sequences. We show how a few optimizations push this limit by about 5 units. Based on these calculations, we study the statistical distribution of hydrophobicity along designing sequences. We find that the average number of hydrophobic and polar clumps along the chains is larger for designing sequences than for random ones, which is in agreement with earlier findings for N up to 18 and with results for real enzymes. We also show that this deviation from randomness disappears if the calculations are restricted to maximally compact structures.

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