The Russian biophysicist and polymer physicist (1929–1999) who discovered the ‘molten globule’ state of proteins and developed the first statistic theory of macromolecules.
Keywords: protein folding; molten globule; polymers
Ptitsyn, Oleg
AV Finkelstein, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia
VE Bychkova, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia
Published online: May 2008
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0021160
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Figure 1. Oleg B. Ptitsyn (1929–1999). Reproduced by kind permission of Irina Ptitsyna.
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Figure 2. O. Ptitsyn and L. Pauling: Institute of Protein Research, Pushchino, 1978. © Finkelstein AV and Bychkova VE (2006).
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Figure 3. O. Ptitsyn at a conference in China, 1989. © Finkelstein AV and Bychkova VE (2006).
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| Further Reading | |
| book Birshtein TM and Ptitsyn OB (1966) Conformations of Macromolecules. New York: Interscience [Russian edition: Moscow: Nauka, 1964]. | |
| Dolgikh DA, Gilmanshin RI, Brazhnikov EV et al. (1981) Alpha-lactalbumin: compact state with fluctuating tertiary structure? FEBS Letter 136: 311–315. | |
| book AV Finkelstein and VE Bychkova (eds) (2006) Oleg Bonsovich Ptitsyn: Personality, Scientist, Teacher, Friend (in Russian). Moscow: University Publishing House. | |
| book Finkelstein AV and Ptitsyn OB (2002) Protein Physics. Amsterdam: Academy Press, An Imprint of Elsevier Science [Russian edition: Moscow: Knizhnyi Dom Universitet, 2002]. | |
| Ptitsyn OB (1973) Sequentional mechanism of protein molecules self-organization. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 210: 1213–1215. | |
| Ptitsyn OB (1995) Molten globule and protein folding. Advances in Protein Chemistry 47: 83–229. | |
| Ptitsyn OB and Finkelstein AV (1980) Similarities of protein topologies: evolutionary divergence, functional convergence or principles of folding? Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics 13: 339–386. | |
| Ptitsyn OB and Finkelstein AV (1983) Theory of protein secondary structure and algorithm of its prediction. Biopolymers 22: 15–25. | |
