▪ Abstract The energy landscape theory of protein folding is a statistical description of a
protein's potential surface. It assumes that folding occurs through organizing an ensemble of …

Fractional dynamics has experienced a firm upswing during the past few years, having been
forged into a mature framework in the theory of stochastic processes. A large number of …

Glasses can be formed by many routes. In some cases, distinct polyamorphic forms are
found. The normal mode of glass formation is cooling of a viscous liquid. Liquid behavior …

Recent experiments, advances in theory, and analogies to other complex systems such as
glasses and spin glasses yield insight into protein dynamics. The basis of the understanding …

Protein conformational fluctuations are highly complex and exhibit long-term correlations.
Here, molecular dynamics simulations of small proteins demonstrate that these …

Relaxation processes and reaction kinetics of proteins deviate from exponential behavior
because of their large amount of conformational substrates. The dynamics are governed by …

Topological characteristics of multidimensional potential energy surfaces are explored and
the full conformation space is mapped on the set of local minima. This map partitions …

We present a method to predict complex structural (conformational) transitions in irregular or
disordered macromolecular systems, such as proteins or glasses, at the atomic level. Our …

A molecular-dynamics calculation on a hydrated protein, crambin, demonstrates that (i)
neighboring dihedral angles are correlated to local transitions in the protein backbone, and …

Protein motions are essential for function. Comparing protein processes with the dielectric
fluctuations of the surrounding solvent shows that they fall into two classes: nonslaved and …