Open Journal of Biophysics

Volume 3, Issue 1 (January 2013)

ISSN Print: 2164-5388   ISSN Online: 2164-5396

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Ben-Naim’s “Pitfall”: Don Quixote’s Windmill

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DOI: 10.4236/ojbiphy.2013.31002    4,023 Downloads   7,458 Views  Citations
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ABSTRACT

Ben-Naim in three articles dismissed and answered the Levinthals paradox. He announces there are pitfalls caused by the misinterpretation of thermodynamic hypothesis. He claims no existence of Gibbs free energy formula where the variable is a protein’s conformation X . His Gibbs energy functional is G(T, P, N, P(R)), where the variable is probability distributions P (R) of the conformations. His “minimum distribution Peq is wrong. By carefully establishing thermodynamic systems, we demonstrate how to apply quantum statistics to derive Gibbs free energy formula G(X). The formula of the folding force is given.

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Y. Fang, "Ben-Naim’s “Pitfall”: Don Quixote’s Windmill," Open Journal of Biophysics, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2013, pp. 13-21. doi: 10.4236/ojbiphy.2013.31002.

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