TY - JOUR
T1 - Hierarchies and logarithmic oscillations in the temporal relaxation patterns of proteins and other complex systems
AU - Metzler, Ralf
AU - Klafter, Joseph
AU - Jortner, Joshua
PY - 1999/9/28
Y1 - 1999/9/28
N2 - Logarithmic oscillations superimposed on the temporal relaxation patterns of complex systems are considered from the standpoint of their hierarchical origin. We propose that a closer examination of experimental data should reveal logarithmic oscillations in systems that are characterized by a hierarchical structure of their dynamical degrees of freedom. On that footing, a new methodology of data analysis is proposed that may prove important for the dynamics of protein folding and of conformational fluctuations in proteins in which the relevant time scales of the dynamical evolution underlying the relaxation kinetics can be deduced from these oscillations.
AB - Logarithmic oscillations superimposed on the temporal relaxation patterns of complex systems are considered from the standpoint of their hierarchical origin. We propose that a closer examination of experimental data should reveal logarithmic oscillations in systems that are characterized by a hierarchical structure of their dynamical degrees of freedom. On that footing, a new methodology of data analysis is proposed that may prove important for the dynamics of protein folding and of conformational fluctuations in proteins in which the relevant time scales of the dynamical evolution underlying the relaxation kinetics can be deduced from these oscillations.
KW - Dynamics of complex systems
KW - Hierarchically constrained dynamics
KW - Logarithmic temporal oscillations
KW - Protein folding
KW - Ultrametric spaces
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0033613185&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.96.20.11085
DO - 10.1073/pnas.96.20.11085
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AN - SCOPUS:0033613185
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 96
SP - 11085
EP - 11089
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
IS - 20
ER -