How evolution makes proteins fold quickly.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on April 28, 1998

Authors

L A Mirny1, V I Abkevich, E I Shakhnovich

Author Affiliations

1: Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138, USA.

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