Theory of Phase Transitions in Polypeptides and Proteins

• Main Author: Yakubovich, Alexander V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Springer Theses
• Subjects: Physics.; Polymers.; Proteins.; Phase transitions (Statistical physics).; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Protein Structure.; Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.; Polymer Sciences.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

There are nearly 100 000 different protein sequences encoded in the human genome, each with its own specific fold. Understanding how a newly formed polypeptide sequence finds its way to the correct fold is one of the greatest challenges in the modern structural biology. The aim of this thesis is to...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Theoretical Methods of Quantum Mechanics
• Degrees of Freedom in Polypeptides and Proteins
• Partition Function of a Polypeptide
• Phase Transitions in Polypeptides
• Folding of Proteins in Aqueous Environment.