TY  - JOUR
PB  - American Physical Society
JF  - Physical Review E
TI  - Cold and warm swelling of hydrophobic polymers
A1  - De Los Rios, Paolo
A1  - Caldarelli, Guido
VL  - 63
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.63.031802
IS  - 3
AV  - none
Y1  - 2001/02//
N2  - We introduce a polymer model where the transition from swollen to compact configurations is due to interactions between the monomers and the solvent. These interactions are the origin of the effective attractive interactions between hydrophobic amino acids in proteins. We find that in the low and high temperature phases polymers are swollen, and there is an intermediate phase where the most favorable configurations are compact. We argue that such a model captures in a single framework both the cold and the warm denaturation experimentally detected for thermosensitive polymers and for proteins.
SN  - 1539-3755
ID  - eprints1154
KW  - PACS: 36.20.-r
KW  -  05.20.-y
KW  -  05.50.+q
KW  -  87.10.+e

ER  -