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Foldon Formation

Foldon Formation is a structural biology concept referring to the stepwise, co-translational assembly of discrete folding units within a nascent polypeptide chain, wherein each foldon represents a fundamental, independently folding segment that acquires its native conformation progressively during synthesis.

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Protein folding: The stepwise assembly of foldon units

Haripada Maity, Mita Maity, Krishna M.G. Mallela et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2005 · 302 citations · Full text

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Formation of folds, boudinage, and mullions in non-Newtonian materials

Robert B. Smith · Geological Society of America Bulletin · 1977 · 302 citations

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Fold morphology and some geometrical implications of theories of fold development

Peter J. Hudleston · Tectonophysics · 1973 · 256 citations

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Compositional Lineation and Its Relation to Complex Folding

Science · 1955 · 234 citations

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Compositional Lineation and Its Relation to Complex Folding

W. H. Newhouse · Science · 1955 · 226 citations

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Authors

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  1. SW
    S. Walter Englander

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    7 publications · 871 citations

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  2. LM
    Leland Mayne

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    4 publications · 587 citations

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  3. KM
    Krishna M.G. Mallela

    University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States

    3 publications · 419 citations

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  4. HM
    Haripada Maity

    Johnson Foundation, United States

    3 publications · 517 citations

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  5. MM
    Mita Maity

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    2 publications · 439 citations

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47

  1. Johnson Foundation

    Racine, United States

    7 h-index

    27 publications

    3.7K citations

  2. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    7 h-index

    23 publications

    3K citations

  3. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    460 citations

  4. SUNY Upstate Medical University

    Syracuse, United States

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    148 citations

  5. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    1 h-index

    5 publications

    80 citations

  6. Centro Nacional de Microbiologia

    Majadahonda, Spain

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

  7. Cleveland State University

    Cleveland, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    135 citations

  8. Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics

    Prague, Czechia

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    81 citations

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  1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 4 publications · 560 citations

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  2. Journal of Molecular Biology

    JMB · 3 publications · 269 citations

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  3. Journal of Biological Chemistry

    JBC · 2 publications · 92 citations

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  4. Protein Science

    PS · 2 publications · 106 citations

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  5. PLoS ONE

    2 publications · 67 citations

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