Kinetics of the polymer collapse transition: the role of hydrodynamics.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
; 71(6 Pt 1): 061804, 2005 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
We investigate numerically the dynamical behavior of a polymer chain collapsing in a dilute solution. The rate of collapse is measured with and without the presence of hydrodynamic interactions. We find that hydrodynamic interactions accelerate polymer collapse. We present a scaling theory describing the physical process responsible for the collapse kinetics. Predicted collapse times in a hydrodynamic (tauH approximately N(4/3)) and a Brownian heat bath (tauB approximately N2) agree well with the numerical results (tauH approximately N(1.40+/-0.08) and tauB approximately N(1.89+/-0.09)) where N denotes chain length. The folding kinetics of Go models of proteins is also examined. We show that for these systems, where many free energy minima compete, hydrodynamics has little effect on the kinetics.
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