AMBER Archive (2003)

Subject: Re: AMBER: surface code in Amber

From: David E. Konerding (dekonerding_at_lbl.gov)
Date: Tue Oct 28 2003 - 10:38:56 CST

Dr. Yong Duan wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, John Lee wrote:
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>
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>>I just worried about if there is such a cave. And most possiblly caves
>>collapse due to VDW forces.
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>Cavity inside protein can remain as cavity if the overall structure
>can support it. In addition, these cavities can remain "dry".
>
>

It shouldn't- it would be a 'vaccuum'. The van der waals forces almost
always adjust to minimize interior
vaccuum.

Dave

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