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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2023

Cooperative melting in double-stranded peptide chains through local mechanical interactions.

Luca Bellino, Giuseppe Florio, Alain Goriely, Giuseppe Puglisi

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Luca BellinoPolytechnic University of Bari, Department of Civil Environmental Land Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh), Via Orabona 4, Bari 70125, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4823-3589
Giuseppe FlorioPolytechnic University of Bari, Department of Civil Environmental Land Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh), Via Orabona 4, Bari 70125, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5499-2530
Alain GorielyMathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6436-8483
Giuseppe PuglisiPolytechnic University of Bari, Department of Civil Environmental Land Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh), Via Orabona 4, Bari 70125, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6771-5495

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The separation of double-stranded peptide chains can occur in two ways: cooperatively or non-cooperatively. These two regimes can be driven either by chemical or thermal effects, or through non-local mechanical interactions. Here, we show explicitly that local mechanical interactions in biological systems may regulate the stability, the reversibility, and the cooperative/non-cooperative character of the debonding transition. We show that this transition is characterized by a single parameter depending on an internal length scale. Our theory describes a wide range of melting transitions found in biological systems such as protein secondary structures, microtubules and tau proteins, and DNA molecules. In these cases, the theory gives the critical force as a function of the chain length and its elastic properties. Our theoretical results provide quantitative predictions for known experimental effects that appear in different biological and biomedical fields.

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MicrotubulesPeptidesPeptidescooperativitylocal mechanical interactionsmelting transitionpeptide chains

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PMID37434501
PMCPMC10336389

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