Are Native Proteins Metastable?

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Abstract

Thermodynamic measurements show that the most stable structural form of a number of proteins under cellular conditions is fibrillar, implying that their functional states may only be metastable.

Publication
Nat. Chem., 2011, 3, 910–911
Govardhan Reddy
Govardhan Reddy
Associate Professor