An experimental survey of the transition between two-state and downhill protein folding scenarios.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on February 11, 2008

Authors

Feng Liu1, Deguo Du, Amelia A Fuller, Jennifer E Davoren, Peter Wipf, Jeffery W Kelly, Martin Gruebele

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology and Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.

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