A Study on How Conformation Entropy of Attached Macromolecules Drives Polymeric Collapse and Protein Folding
Ionel Popa
Abstract:The conformation of macromolecules attached to a surface is influenced by both their excluded volume and steric forces. Here I use self‐avoiding random walk simulations to evaluate the occurrence of various conformations as a function of the number of monomeric units to estimate the effect of conformational entropy of a tethered chain. Then, a more realistic scenario is assessed, which can more accurately reproduce the shape of a tethered macromolecule. The simulations presented here confirm that it is more li… Show more
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