3 papers
cond-mat1996
Theory of Kinetic Partitioning in Protein Folding (With Application to Prions)
V. I. Abkevich, A. M. Gutin, E. I. Shakhnovich
In this paper we study the phenomenon of kinetic partitioning when a polypeptide chain has two ground state conformations one of which is more kinetically reachable than the other.…
cond-mat1996
Cooperativity of Protein Folding and the Random-Field Ising Model
A. M. Gutin, V. I. Abkevich, E. I. Shakhnovich
The relation between cooperativity of protein folding and the Random-Field Ising Model (RFIM) is established. Generalization of the Imry-Ma argument predicts cooperative folding tr…
cond-mat1996
Statistical mechanics of a cross-linked polymer blend
C. D. Sfatos, A. M. Gutin, E. I. Shakhnovich
We study a blend of two kinds of homopolymers with tendency for segragation. Cross-links between the chains of different kinds do not allow macrophase separation. Instead microphas…