A model of protein folding based on effective pair potentials.

In a previous paper [Phys. Rev. E 68, 011903 (2003)], we extracted an effective potential between pairs of alanines from an experimental correlation function, through the Ornstein?Zernike equation and the hypernetted chain approximation. A modified version of this effective pair potential is then used in a Monte Carlo simulation. As a result, we obtain two important secondary structures, i.e., an ??helix and a ??ladder. 2005 American Institute of Physics