Cotranslational Protein Folding inside the Ribosome Exit Tunnel

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Summary

It is shown that a small zinc-finger domain protein can fold deep inside the vestibule of the ribosome exit tunnel, which means that the Ribosome itself can provide the kind of sheltered folding environment that chaperones provide for larger proteins.

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Published
2015-08-28
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Keywords

Ribosome, Förster resonance energy transfer, Biophysics, Protein folding, Folding (DSP implementation)

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