Computer Simulation Study of Biopolymer Betanova

Abstract

Betanova is a monomeric, three-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet protein with twenty residues. The pathways between the folded native structure and unfolded conformations of betanova are studied using UNRES force field and the most popular computer simulation method, Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithm. At a fixed temperature, 100 Monte Carlo simulations are performed, starting from the folded native structure, and the pathways are obtained at two different temperatures.