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SUBMITTER: Cardelli C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5504045 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cardelli Chiara C Bianco Valentino V Rovigatti Lorenzo L Nerattini Francesca F Tubiana Luca L Dellago Christoph C Coluzza Ivan I
Scientific reports 20170710 1
Heteropolymers are important examples of self-assembling systems. However, in the design of artificial heteropolymers the control over the single chain self-assembling properties does not reach that of the natural bio-polymers, and in particular proteins. Here, we introduce a sufficiency criterion to identify polymers that can be designed to adopt a predetermined structure and show that it is fulfilled by polymers made of monomers interacting through directional (anisotropic) interactions. The c ...[more]