Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8319474 | Current Opinion in Structural Biology | 2018 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
The transition path is the tiny segment of a single molecule trajectory when the free energy barrier between states is crossed and for protein folding contains all of the information about the self-assembly mechanism. As a first step toward obtaining structural information during the transition path from experiments, single molecule FRET spectroscopy has been used to determine average transition path times from a photon-by-photon analysis of fluorescence trajectories. These results, obtained for several different proteins, have already provided new and demanding tests that support both the accuracy of all-atom molecular dynamics simulations and the basic postulates of energy landscape theory of protein folding.
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Authors
Hoi Sung Chung, William A Eaton,