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...