Proteins
Proteins are a particular group of linear chain polymers, built up from a collection of 20 different monomers known as amino acids. Proteins, unlike many synthetic polymers, have a very specific sequence (and hence length), which results in a specific three-dimensional structure. Presently much computational effort is dedicated to the prediction of such structure from a given sequence.
Potentials and models
- CABS model
- Chen and Imamura model
- DFIRE model
- Go potential
- Irbäck hydrogen bond model
- Nanias model
- Patchy particles
- TE-13 model
Systems
- Chymotrypsin Inhibitor 2 (CI2)
- Ubiquitin
- Villin headpiece
- Bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI)
Other
General Reading
- Christian B. Anfinsen "Principles that Govern the Folding of Protein Chains", Science 181 pp. 223-230 (1973)
- Thomas E. Creighton "Proteins: Structures and Molecular Properties", W. H. Freeman, Second Edition edition (1993) ISBN 071677030X
- A.V. Yakubovich, I.A. Solov'yov, A.V. Solov'yov and W. Greiner "Phase transition in polypeptides: a step towards the understanding of protein folding", The European Physical Journal D 40 pp. 363-367 (2006)
- Arieh Ben-Naim "Some aspects of the protein folding problem examined in one-dimensional systems", Journal of Chemical Physics 135 085104 (2011)