▪ Abstract The energy landscape theory of protein folding is a statistical description of a
protein's potential surface. It assumes that folding occurs through organizing an ensemble of …

Experiment and theory are converging on the importance of nucleation mechanisms in
protein folding. These mechanisms do not use classic nuclei, which are well formed …

The characterization of protein-folding kinetics with increasing chain length under various
thermodynamic conditions is addressed using the capillarity picture in which distinct spatial …

It is now believed that the primary equilibrium aspects of simple models of protein folding are
understood theoretically. However, current theories often resort to rather heavy mathematics …

While the overall energy landscape of a foldable protein can be described by means of a
few parameters characterizing its statistical topography, specific energetic terms subtly bias …

We have designed an automated procedure to cut a protein into compact hydrophobic
folding units. The hydrophobic units are large enough to contain tertiary non‐local …

We have identified independently folding units, so called “foldons”, from non-homologous
proteins representing different folds. We applied simple statistical arguments in order to …

Chymotrypsin inhibitor 2 (CI2) folds kinetically as a single domain protein. It has been shown
that elements of native secondary structure do not significantly form in fragments as the 64 …

Protein folding is analyzed using a replica variational formalism to investigate some free
energy landscape characteristics relevant for dynamics. A random contact interaction model …

A single intron of 87 bp, close to the region encoding the C‐terminal part of the signal
peptide, was found in the gene of the 'short'scorpion toxin kaliotoxin 2 of Androctonus …