Issue December 2002

category image Volume 20
No. 3 (p 311-486)
December 2002
ISSN 0739-1102
An Opinion Piece: Conversation on Levinthal Paradox & Protein Folding #3

A Few Disconnected Notes Related to Levinthal Paradox (p. 317-322)

We estimate that the longest protein chain capable of exhaustive sampling of all its conformations within a millisecond is shorter than 15 residues. This reinforces the understanding of Levinthal paradox which emerged in the last decade, namely, that cooperative (all-or-none) character of folding and unfolding transition is indicative of the sequences selected such that reliable folding does not require exhaustive conformation sampling. The opinion is formulated that the discussions of Levinthal paradox should now fly to the new spheres.

A. Grosberg1,2

1Department of Physics
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
2Institute of Biochemical Physics
Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow 117977, Russia
grosberg@physics.umn.edu

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