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SUBMITTER: Cuendet MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5156960 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cuendet Michel A MA Weinstein Harel H LeVine Michael V MV
Journal of chemical theory and computation 20161122 12
Allostery plays a fundamental role in most biological processes. However, little theory is available to describe it outside of two-state models. Here we use a statistical mechanical approach to show that the allosteric coupling between two collective variables is not a single number, but instead a two-dimensional thermodynamic coupling function that is directly related to the mutual information from information theory and the copula density function from probability theory. On this basis, we dem ...[more]