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Phys. Rev. E 73, 020901(R) (2006) [4 pages]

Substrate specificity of peptide adsorption: A model study

Michael Bachmann and Wolfhard Janke
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10/11, D-04109 Leipzig, Germany
Rapid Received 19 August 2005; published 17 February 2006

Applying the contact density chain-growth algorithm to lattice heteropolymers, we identify the conformational transitions of a nongrafted hydrophobic-polar heteropolymer with 103 residues in the vicinity of a polar, a hydrophobic, and a uniformly attractive substrate. Introducing only two system parameters, the numbers of surface contacts and intrinsic hydrophobic contacts, respectively, we obtain surprisingly complex temperature and solvent dependent, substrate-specific pseudophase diagrams.

©2006 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.73.020901
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.020901
PACS: 87.15.Aa; 05.10.-a; 87.15.Cc
  • 87.15.Aa
    Theory and modeling in molecular biophysics; computer simulation
  • 05.10.-a
    Computational methods in statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics
  • 87.15.Cc
    Folding and sequence analysis of biomolecules
  • YEAR: 2006
KEYWORDS: polymers, molecular biophysics, adsorption

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