Solvation vs. freezing in a heteropolymer globule

Details Solvation vs. freezing in a heteropolymer globule Solvation vs. freezing in a heteropolymer globule

2003-05-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305094v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

10 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.70.021802

We address the response of a random heteropolymer to preferential solvation of certain monomer types at the globule-solvent interface. For each set of monomers that can comprise the molecule's surface, we represent the ensemble of allowed configurations by a Gaussian distribution of energy levels, whose mean and variance depend on the set's composition. Within such a random energy model, mean surface composition is proportional to solvation strength under most conditions. The breadth of this linear response regime arises from approximate statistical independence of surface and volume energies. For a diverse set of monomer types, the excess of solvophilic monomers at the surface is large only for very strong solvent preference, even in the ground state.

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