Thursday, September 13, 2012

Protein folding – simplicity in complexity

M.M. Lin, A.H. Zewail

Understanding and predicting protein folding would elucidate how misfolded proteins cause aggregation and amyloid formation, for example in Alzheimer's disease. Despite the seemingly bewildering complexity of protein biology, simple analytic models can still capture the basic physics and predict the fundamental limits for protein domain size and folding speed.

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Journal: Annalen der Physik

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