Equilibrium properties of realistic random heteropolymers and their relevance for globular and naturally unfolded proteins

Details Equilibrium properties of realistic random heteropolymers and their relevance for globular and naturally unfolded proteins Equilibrium properties of realistic random heteropolymers and their relevance for globular and naturally unfolded proteins

2011-11-24

arxiv.org/abs/1111.5724v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Biomolecules

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Random heteropolymers do not display the typical equilibrium properties of globular proteins, but are the starting point to understand the physics of proteins and, in particular, to describe their non-native states. So far, they have been studied only with mean-field models in the thermodynamic limit, or with computer simulations of very small chains on lattice. After describing a self-adjusting parallel-tempering technique to sample efficiently the low-energy states of frustrated systems without the need of tuning the system-dependent parameters of the algorithm, we apply it to random heteropolymers moving in continuous space. We show that if the mean interaction between monomers is negative, the usual description through the random energy model is nearly correct, provided that it is extended to account for non-compact conformations. If the mean interaction is positive, such a simple description breaks out and the system behaves in a way more similar to Ising spin glasses. The former case is a model for the denatured state of glob- ular proteins, the latter of naturally-unfolded proteins, whose equilibrium properties thus result qualitatively different.

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