Kinetics of conformational transitions of a single polymer chain

K.A. Dawson, E.G. Timoshenko and Yu.A. Kuznetsov

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1997, vol. 236, issue 1, 58-74

Abstract: We seek to provide a general strategy to permit the study of non-equilibrium aspects of conformational transitions in various types of heteropolymers. The theoretical methods we have developed rely mainly on the Gaussian self-consistent approach that replaces the exact non-linear Langevin equation by a linear stochastic ensemble with unknown time-dependent parameters determined in a self-consistent way. We discuss possible applications of the method to conformational transitions of biopolymers such as DNA and protein folding.

Keywords: Kinetics; DNA; Heteropolymer; Protein folding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(96)00396-2

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