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physics.bio-ph2007★ 13 cited
Intricate Knots in Proteins: Function and Evolution
Peter Virnau, Leonid A. Mirny, Mehran Kardar
A number of recently discovered protein structures incorporate a rather unexpected structural feature: a knot in the polypeptide backbone. These knots are extremely rare, but their…
physics.bio-ph2000★ 1 cited
Evolutionary conservation of the folding nucleus
Leonid Mirny, Eugene Shakhnovich
In this Communication we present statistical analysis of conservation profiles in families of homologous sequences for nine proteins whose folding nucleus was determined by protein…