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Microfluidic Mixers for Studying Protein Folding
Published on: April 10, 2012
Protein folding rates correlate with heterogeneity of folding mechanism
B Oztop1, M R Ejtehadi, S S Plotkin
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T-1Z1, Canada.
Abstract:
By observing trends in the folding kinetics of experimental 2-state proteins at their transition midpoints, and by observing trends in the barrier heights of numerous simulations of coarse-grained, C(alpha) model Go proteins, we show that folding rates correlate with the degree of heterogeneity in the formation of native contacts. Statistically significant correlations are observed between folding rates and measures of heterogeneity inherent in the native topology, as well as between rates and the variance in the distribution of either experimentally measured or simulated phi values.
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