Spontaneous symmetry breaking in a non-rigid molecule approach to intrinsically disordered proteins
- 9 September 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Molecular BioSystems
- Vol. 8 (1) , 374-377
Abstract
An analog to Longuet-Higgins' non-rigid molecular group theory arguments can be applied to the structure and reaction dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteinsvia a somewhat counterintuitive Morse Function treatment inspired by statistical mechanics, providing possible symmetry classifications of the molecular ‘fuzzy lock-and-key’.Keywords
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