Title

Fuzzy oil drop model verified positively  

Authors

Mateusz Banach^{1, 2}, Katarzyna Prymula^{1, 3}, Leszek Konieczny^{1, 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  

+48 12 619 96 93

Article Type

Hypothesis

Date

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

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.