Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 238101 (2004) [4 pages]

Lattice Tube Model of Proteins

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Jayanth R. Banavar¹, Marek Cieplak², and Amos Maritan³
¹104 Davey Laboratory, Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
²Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland
³Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Universitá degli Studi di Padova, via Mazzolo 8, 35100, Padova, Italy

Received 8 May 2004; published 29 November 2004

We present a new lattice model for proteins that incorporates a tubelike anisotropy by introducing a preference for mutually parallel alignments in the conformations. The model is demonstrated to capture many aspects of real proteins.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.238101

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.238101

PACS:

87.15.He, 87.15.Aa, 87.15.Cc

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 238101 (2004) [4 pages]

Lattice Tube Model of Proteins