From Levinthal to pathways to funnels
@article{Dill1997FromLT, title={From Levinthal to pathways to funnels}, author={Ken A. Dill and Hue Sun Chan}, journal={Nature Structural Biology}, year={1997}, volume={4}, pages={10-19} }
While the classical view of protein folding kinetics relies on phenomenological models, and regards folding intermediates in a structural way, the new view emphasizes the ensemble nature of protein conformations. Although folding has sometimes been regarded as a linear sequence of events, the new view sees folding as parallel microscopic multi-pathway diffusion-like processes. While the classical view invoked pathways to solve the problem of searching for the needle in the haystack, the pathway…
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