Configurational entropy of native proteins. |
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Authors: | M Karplus T Ichiye B M Pettitt |
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Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138. |
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Abstract: | Simulations of the residual configurational entropy of a protein in the native state suggest that it is nearly an order of magnitude larger than the entropy of denaturation. The implications of this result are discussed. |
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