The Second Law, Gibbs Free Energy, Geometry, and Protein Folding
Journal: Journal of Advances in Physics (Vol.3, No. 3)Publication Date: 2013-12-18
Authors : Yi Fang;
Page : 278-285
Keywords : Protein folding; Gibbs free energy; quantum mechanics; statistical mechanics; globular protein; single molecule;
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Abstract
The fundamental physical law of protein folding is the second law of thermodynamics. The key to solve protein folding problem is to derive an analytic formula of the Gibbs free energy. It has been overdue for too long. Let be a monomeric globular protein whose atoms are classified into hydrophobicity classes , . For each conformation of , we apply quantum statistics to the corresponding single molecule thermodynamic system to obtain Gibbs free energy of protein folding in physiological environment En,
where is the volume of , a region enclosed by the molecular surface , the diameter of a water molecule, and ’s chemical potentials per unit volume and area, and and the areas of and . The and its gradient not only reduce the protein structure prediction to a pure mathematical problem of finding minimizers of an analytic function , but also supply new insights in understanding the kinetics of the protein folding process.
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