Non-native interactions, effective contact order, and protein folding: a mutational investigation with the energetically frustrated hydrophobic model.

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By Monte Carlo simulations, we explored the effect of single mutations on the thermodynamics and kinetics of the folding of a two-dimensional, energetically frustrated, hydrophobic protein model. Phi-Value analysis, corroborated by simulations beginning from given sets of judiciously chosen initial contacts, suggests that the transition state of the model consists of a limited region of the native structure, that...

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