Connecting Coil-to-Globule Transitions to Full Phase Diagrams for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
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Phase transitions of a polymer threading a membrane coupled to coil-globule transitions.
We theoretically study phase transitions of a polymer threading through a pore imbedded in a membrane. We focus on the coupling between a partition of the polymer segments through the membrane and a coil-globule transition of the single polymer chain. Based on the Flory model for collapse transitions of a polymer chain, we calculate the fraction of polymer segments and the expansion factor of a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biophysical Journal
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0006-3495
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.06.014