Lattice tube model of proteins

Abstract

We present a new lattice model for proteins that incorporates a tube-like anisotropy by introducing a preference for mutually parallel alignments in the conformations. The model is demonstrated to capture many aspects of real proteins.

Phys. Rev. Lett. in press; 4 figures

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