The limited role of non-native contacts in folding pathways of a lattice protein
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Brian C. Gin, 2, 3 Juan P. Garrahan, and Phillip L. Geissler∗1, 2 Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 Chemical Sciences and Physical Biosciences Divisions, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California 94720 School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, U.K.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014