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Statistical mechanics of warm and cold unfolding in proteins

Alex Hansen, Mogens H. Jensen, Kim Sneppen, Giovanni Zocchi

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9711291

Abstract

We present a statistical mechanics treatment of the stability of globular proteins which takes explicitly into account the coupling between the protein and water degrees of freedom. This allows us to describe both the cold and the warm unfolding, thus qualitatively reproducing the known thermodynamics of proteins.

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