14.15 Uhr im Seminarraum 1.26 Von-Seckendorff-Platz 1, 06120 Halle
Dept. of Physics, Hiram College, USA
Polymer folding in confined and crowded environments”
Abstract:
A flexible homopolymer chain with sufficiently short-range interactions undergoes a first-order-like transition from an expanded coil to a compact crystallite. We have recently shown that this very simple model illustrates the underlying polymer physics leading to the distinct all-or-none folding thermodynamics characterizing many small proteins [1]. Here we investigate this polymer folding transition under geometric confinement and in the presence of macromolecular crowders…
