Friday, December 14, 2012

Questions about protein folding

What is the physical code that relates the amino acid sequence to a proteins native structure?
How do proteins fold so fast?
Can protein structure be computationally predicted?

These are highlighted as key questions in a nice readable review in Science The Protein Folding problem, 50 years on by Ken Dill and Justin MacCallum.

The article gives a sober assessment of limited but significant achievements and the substantial challenges ahead.
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  1. UnknownApril 16, 2014 at 3:16 AM

    These are highlighted as key questions in a nice readable review in Science The Protein Characterization Folding problem, 50 years on by Ken Dill and Justin MacCallum.

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