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Protein folding as seen from water's perspective

Nature Structural Biology volume 6, pages 203–205 (1999)Cite this article

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Surprisingly, studies of the hydration of the molten globule state of three small proteins by H217O magnetic relaxation find no significant differences from the native state.

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Figure 1: The left set of curves represents the exponential decay of rotational autocorrelation of the O-H bond vector with time.

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