Mechanism of protein folding
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O. B. Ptitsyn; A. V. Finkelstein
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Article
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1979
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The first stage of protein self‐organization—the formation of a fluctuating secondary structure in the unfolded protein chain—is considered. The stereochemical theory is presented enabling one to calculate helix‐coil and β‐structure‐coil equilibrium constants. It is shown that the most