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Protein folding in the intracellular environment is dictated by several driving interactions whose marvelous interplay is essential for maintaining the correct functioning of healthy living organisms. Physical forces directing polypeptide chains toward specific conformational ensembles start acting during ribosomeassisted biosynthesis, due to slow translation timescales.
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Cavagnero, S., Kurt, N. (2006). Folding and Misfolding as a Function of Polypeptide Chain Elongation. In: Misbehaving Proteins. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36063-8_10
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