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Solvent quality and nonbiological oligomer folding: revisiting conventional paradigms

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: -hexane, and very different for cyclohexane. A comparison with the same properties for poly-phenylalanine oligomers underscores the crucial differences between pPA and peptides. To highlight how these findings can hardly be interpreted in terms of a simple "good" and "poor" solvent picture, a molecular dynamics study of a bead-spring polymer chain in a Lennard-Jones fluid is also included.

Source: Soft Matter

DOI: 10.1039/d4sm00727a

Authors: Cedrix J. Dongmo Foumthuim, Tobia Arcangeli, Tatjana Škrbić, Achille Giacometti

Institutions: Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma Tor Vergata, Politecnico di Milano, European Centre for Living Technology

Language: English

Topic: Protein Structure and Dynamics

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca

Awards: G1005750222, G6293155153