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Structure and Coordination Determination of Peptide-metal Complexes Using 1D and 2D 1H NMR
Published on: December 16, 2013
[Calculation of parameters of the phenomenological theory of helix-coil transition in polypeptides based on a
Abstract:
An expression for the partition function of the model including only two parameters-U (energy of hydrogen bond) and Q (the number of conformations of the repeating unit) with Hamiltonian is obtained. This expression has the form of algebraic series with the number of members approximately N3, N being the length of the chain. The results of calculations of the temperature relationship of helicity degree are presented for different values of N. The transition width and the parameter of cooperativity are calculated.
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