Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2001, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (7): 1241.

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A New Protein Lattice Model

ZHANG Lin-Xi1, ZHAO De-Lu2   

  1. 1. Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China;
    2. Polymer Physics Laboratory, Center of Molecular Science, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
  • Received:2000-08-02 Online:2001-07-24 Published:2001-07-24

Abstract: Anew protein lattice model basing on the bond fluctuation model is performed in this paper. Through investigation of two-dimensional protein structure using our lattice model, we find that our two-dimensional protein chains have more contacts. The conformations Ω0 may be expressed as Ω0N, here Nis chain length and γ =4768, and the average compactness < ρ(N) > is close to 0.31-0.32. For the given HPsequences, our protein lattices have lower ground state energies. Comparisons with two-dimensional square lattice model are also made.

Key words: Protein, Bond fluctuation model, Conformation, Contact

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