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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 129, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2981795
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The effective interaction between a sphere with an open cavity (lock) and a spherical macroparticle (key), both immersed in a hard sphere fluid, is studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations. As a result, a two-dimensional map of the key-lock effective interaction potential is constructed, which leads to the proposal of a self-assembling mechanism: There exists trajectories through which the key-lock pair could assemble avoiding trespassing potential barriers. Hence, solely the entropic contribution can induce their self-assembling even in the absence of attractive forces. This study points out the solvent contribution within the underlying mechanisms of substrate-protein assembly/disassembly processes, which are important steps of the enzyme catalysis and protein mediated transport. (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics. [DOI: 10.1063/1.2981795]
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