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Analysis of 'downhill' protein folding; Analysis of protein-folding cooperativity (Reply)

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Ferguson et al.1 and Zhou and Bai2 criticize the quality of our nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data and atom-by-atom analysis of global 'downhill' folding3, also claiming that the data are compatible with two-state folding.

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Figure 1: Analysis of the physical relevance of global two-state fits.

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    Mourad Sadqi, David Fushman & Victor Muñoz

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Sadqi, M., Fushman, D. & Muñoz, V. Analysis of 'downhill' protein folding; Analysis of protein-folding cooperativity (Reply). Nature 445, E17–E18 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05645

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