Physics – Biological Physics
Scientific paper
2010-11-10
Physics
Biological Physics
19 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Scientific paper
Protein folding is a universal process, very fast and accurate, which works consistently (as it should be) in a wide range of physiological conditions. The present work is based on three premises, namely: ($i$) folding reaction is a process with two consecutive and independent stages, namely the search mechanism and the overall productive stabilization; ($ii$) the folding kinetics results from a mechanism as fast as can be; and ($iii$) at nanoscale dimensions, local thermal fluctuations may have important role on the folding kinetics. Here the first stage of folding process (search mechanism) is focused exclusively. The effects and consequences of local thermal fluctuations on the configurational kinetics, treated here in the context of non extensive statistical mechanics, is analyzed in detail through the dependence of the characteristic time of folding ($\tau$) on the temperature $T$ and on the nonextensive parameter $q$.The model used consists of effective residues forming a chain of 27 beads, which occupy different sites of a $3-$D infinite lattice, representing a single protein chain in solution. The configurational evolution, treated by Monte Carlo simulation, is driven mainly by the change in free energy of transfer between consecutive configurations. ...
Caliri A.
da Silva Marco Antonio Alves
Dal Molin J. P.
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