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Folding funnels and frustration in off-lattice minimalist protein landscapes

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Nymeyer, Hugh, García, Angel E., Onuchic, José Nelson·1998·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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A full quantitative understanding of the protein folding problem is now becoming possible with the help of the energy landscape theory and the protein folding funnel concept. Good folding sequences have a landscape that resembles a rough funnel where the energy bias towards the native state is larger than its ruggedness. Such a landscape leads not only to fast folding and stable native conformations but, more importantly, to sequences that are robust to variations in the protein environment and to sequence mutations. In this paper, an off-lattice model of sequences that fold into a β-barrel native structure is used to describe a framework that can quantitatively distinguish good and bad folders. The two sequences analyzed have the same native structure, but one of them is minimally frustrated whereas the other one exhibits a high degree of frustration.

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Authors
Nymeyer, H., García, A. E., & Onuchic, J. N.
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
1998-05-26
Volume
95
Issue
11
Pages
5921-5928
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
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W1993321394
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326
References
5
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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Nymeyer, H., García, A. E., & Onuchic, J. N. (1998). Folding funnels and frustration in off-lattice minimalist protein landscapes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.95.11.5921

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