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Title

 

 

 

 

Fuzzy oil drop model verified positively  

Authors

Mateusz Banach1, 2, Katarzyna Prymula1, 3, Leszek Konieczny1, 4, Irena Roterman1*

Affiliation

1Department of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine, Medical College, Jagiellonian University, Lazarza 16, 31-530 Krakow, Poland; 2Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Reymonta 4, 30-059 Krakow, Poland; 3Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University Ingardena 3, 30-060 Krakow, Poland; 4Chair of Medical Biochemistry, Medical College, Jagiellonian University, Kopernika 7, 31-034 Krakow, Poland 

Email

myroterm@cyf-kr.edu; *Corresponding author  

Phone

+48 12 619 96 93

Article Type

Hypothesis

 

Date

Received December 19, 2010; Accepted December 29, 2010; Published February 07, 2011
 

Abstract

The “fuzzy oil drop” model assuming the structure of the hydrophobic core of the form of 3-D Gauss function appeared to be verified positively. The protein 1NMF belonging to downhill proteins was found to represent the hydrophobic density distribution accordant with the assumed model. The accordance of the protein structure with the assumed model was measured using elements of theory information. This observation opens the possibility to simulate the folding process as influenced by external force field of hydrophobic character.  

Citation

Banach et al. Bioinformation 5(9): 375-377 (2011)

Edited by

P Kangueane

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.