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The human peripheral subunit-binding domain folds rapidly while overcoming repulsive Coulomb forces

  1. Eyal Arbely1,†,
  2. Hannes Neuweiler1,†,
  3. Timothy D. Sharpe2,
  4. Christopher M. Johnson1,
  5. Alan R. Fersht1,2,*

Article first published online: 26 JUL 2010

DOI: 10.1002/pro.453

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Protein Science

Protein Science

Volume 19, Issue 9, pages 1704–1713, September 2010

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Arbely, E., Neuweiler, H., Sharpe, T. D., Johnson, C. M. and Fersht, A. R. (2010), The human peripheral subunit-binding domain folds rapidly while overcoming repulsive Coulomb forces. Protein Science, 19: 1704–1713. doi: 10.1002/pro.453

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  1. 1

    Medical Research Council Centre for Protein Engineering, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, United Kingdom

  2. 2

    Cambridge Chemical Laboratories, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom

  1. †

    E. Arbely and H. Neuweiler contributed equally to this work.

*MRC Centre for Protein Engineering, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, United Kingdom

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 23 AUG 2010
  2. Article first published online: 26 JUL 2010
  3. Manuscript Revised: 6 JUL 2010
  4. Manuscript Accepted: 6 JUL 2010
  5. Manuscript Received: 2 JUN 2010

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