期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2000
卷号：97
期号：23
页码：12565-12570
DOI：10.1073/pnas.97.23.12565
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Using an all-atom representation, we exhaustively enumerate all sterically allowed conformations for short polyalanyl chains. Only intrachain interactions are considered, including one adjustable parameter, a favorable backbone energy (e.g., a peptide hydrogen bond). The counting is used to reevaluate Flory's isolated-pair hypothesis, the simplifying assumption that each {varphi
