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The case for defined protein folding pathways

S. Englander,L. Mayne

2017 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1706196114
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 121 Citations

TLDR

Analysis presented here shows that these many microscopic trajectories in the proposed many-pathway protein folding model are not distinct in any functionally significant way, and they have neither the structural information nor the biased energetics needed to select native vs. nonnative interactions during folding.