Insights into protein folding mechanisms from large scale analysis of mutational effects.

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Protein folding mechanisms are probed experimentally using single-point mutant perturbations. The relative effects on the folding (phi-values) and unfolding (1 - phi) rates are used to infer the detailed structure of the transition-state ensemble (TSE). Here we analyze kinetic data on > 800 mutations carried out for 24 proteins with simple kinetic behavior. We find two surprising results: (i) all mutant effects...

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