Focus on Membrane Traffic abstract
Nature Cell Biology 1, E154 - E155 (1999)
doi:10.1038/14107
Protein folding in vivo: the importance of ribosomes
Thomas O. Baldwin1
- Thomas O. Baldwin is in the Biochemistry Department, The University of Arizona, PO Box 210088, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0088, USA.
Correspondence to: Thomas O. Baldwin1 e-mail: e-mail: tbaldwin@u.arizona.edu
Abstract
The folding of proteins into their native conformation is more favourable kinetically if it occurs at the same time as protein synthesis, but there are few examples of such co-translational folding. The folding of the Semliki Forest virus capsid protein is one example.
