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Protein folding

To knot or not to knot?

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A knot-containing protein is found to fold reversibly at biologically relevant timescales despite not having naturally evolved for this ability.

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Figure 1: Knots in proteins.
Figure 2: Unknotted (top) and knotted (bottom) twin proteins.

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  1. Eugene Shakhnovich is at the Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. shakhnovich@chemistry.harvard.edu,

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