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ReviewBiophysical journal2016

Meandering Down the Energy Landscape of Protein Folding: Are We There Yet?

Rachel M Abaskharon, Feng Gai

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Review in Biophysical journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Review
  5. The case for defined protein folding pathways.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
    Article
  6. Microscopic nucleation and propagation rates of an alanine-based α-helix.Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP · 2017
    Article
  7. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Rachel M AbaskharonDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Feng GaiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; The Ultrafast Optical Processes Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: gai@sas.upenn.edu.

Funding

ULTRAFAST OPTICAL PROCESSES LABORATORYP41GM104605 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GAI, FENG · 2012 to 2017
$5.6M
Spectroscopic Study of Protein Folding DynamicsR01GM065978 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GAI, FENG · 2002 to 2014
$3.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM104605NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM065978
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As judged by a single publication metric, the activity in the protein folding field has been declining over the past 5 years, after enjoying a decade-long growth. Does this development indicate that the field is sunsetting or is this decline only temporary? Upon surveying a small territory of its landscape, we find that the protein folding field is still quite active and many important findings have emerged from recent experimental studies. However, it is also clear that only continued development of new techniques and methods, especially those enabling dissection of the fine details and features of the protein folding energy landscape, will fuel this old field to move forward.

Indexed as

Protein FoldingSpectrometry, FluorescenceThermodynamics

Identifiers

PMID27166801
PMCPMC4940508

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