Tuning the Globular Assembly of Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic Heteropolymer Sequences
Tuning the Globular Assembly of Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic Heteropolymer Sequences
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DOI:
10.1021/jp907398r
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发表时间:
2009-10-29
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Ashbaugh, Henry S.
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作者:
Ashbaugh, Henry S.
We propose a heteropolymer design scheme, to tune monomer distributions that stabilize or destabilize the collapsed globular conformation relative to random sequencing. Polymer sequences trained via globular templating are mapped to a one-dimensional Ising-like model, and inverse Monte Carlo simulations are performed to determine an-effective interaction, between monomers that reproduces intrasequence correlations. Heteropolymer sequences generated using this effective interaction quantitatively reproduce the coil-to-globule transition with increasing polymer hydrophobicity observed for templated sequences. Through potential scaling, the range of transition hydrophobic fractions required to collapse the polymer opens up by a factor of 2, from a minimum fraction of 17% to a maximum of 32% for the longest polymers simulated. Collapsed conformations are favored by sequences in which there is intermediate segregation of hydrophobic and hydrophilic units along the backbone, while monomer integration favors coils.