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Dramatic acceleration of protein folding by stabilization of a nonnative backbone conformation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 25 May 2004
Di Nardo Ariel A, Korzhnev Dmitry M, Stogios Peter J, Zarrine-Afsar Arash, Kay Lewis E, Davidson Alan R
Abstract excerpt
Through a mutagenic investigation of Gly-48, a highly conserved position in the Src homology 3 domain, we have discovered a series of amino acid substitutions that are highly destabilizing, yet dramatically accelerate protein folding, some up to 10-fold compared with the wild-type rate. The unique folding properties of these mutants allowed for accurate measurement of their folding and unfolding rates in water...
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