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      Taming the complexity of protein folding.

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      Current opinion in structural biology
      Elsevier BV

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          Abstract

          Protein folding is an important problem in structural biology with significant medical implications, particularly for misfolding disorders like Alzheimer's disease. Solving the folding problem will ultimately require a combination of theory and experiment, with theoretical models providing a comprehensive view of folding and experiments grounding these models in reality. Here we review progress towards this goal over the past decade, with an emphasis on recent theoretical advances that are empowering chemically detailed models of folding and the new results these technologies are providing. In particular, we discuss new insights made possible by Markov state models (MSMs), including the role of non-native contacts and the hub-like character of protein folded states.

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          Journal
          Curr Opin Struct Biol
          Current opinion in structural biology
          Elsevier BV
          1879-033X
          0959-440X
          Feb 2011
          : 21
          : 1
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
          Article
          S0959-440X(10)00169-7 NIHMS249590
          10.1016/j.sbi.2010.10.006
          3042729
          21081274
          61fbfaf8-126f-4eb4-8c0d-00562a1cd999
          Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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