NPAC Technical Report SCCS-382
Random self-interacting chains: a mechanism for protein folding
Giulia Iori, Enzo Marinari, Giorgio Parisi
Submitted July 23 1991
Abstract
We investigate by Monte Carlo simulations the thermodynamic behavior of a
linear heteropolymer in which the interaction between different monomers
contains a quenched random component. We show the existence, along with the
usual coil and globule ones, of a new phase, the folded phase,
characterised by long relaxation times and by the existence of few
stable states.