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Rough passage across a barrier

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The dynamics of chemical reactions in solution are described by Kramers' theory, but the parameters involved have eluded direct measurement. A study of protein folding reveals how this problem can be overcome. See Letter p.685

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Figure 1: Barrier crossing in protein folding.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 23 October 2013.

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  1. Benjamin Schuler is in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.,

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  2. Jane Clarke is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK.,

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