Abstract: In order to gain insight into the formation of proteinaceous liquid droplets, we study systems of many disordered homopeptide chains within our coarse-grained molecular dynamics model with conformation-dependent terms. We construct the phase diagrams for polyalanine of length 20 and polyglutamines of lengths 20, 40 and 60 based on the stationary-state cluster distribution. The phase diagrams are distinct but correspond to the same topology. We delineate the liquid-gas coexistence curve at around room temperature. We also identify a novel amyloi...
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Chemical physics