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. 1998 Sep 15;17(18):5251–5254. doi: 10.1093/emboj/17.18.5251

Protein folding and misfolding inside and outside the cell.

C M Dobson 1, R J Ellis 1
PMCID: PMC1170852  PMID: 9736604

Abstract

The workshop was held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, from March 25-28, 1998, and attracted participants from 32 nations. Protein folding is one of the most important processes in biology since it adds functional flesh to the bare bones of genes, but it has traditionally been studied by people separated both intellectually and physically because they are training in different disciplines. The aim of the meeting was to bring together chemists and structural biologists studying how pure, denatured proteins refold spontaneously in the test tube, with biochemists and cell biologists who are concerned with how proteins fold inside living cells and medical scientists interested in the diseases that result when this process goes wrong. In this report we concentrate on general concepts and themes rather than on detailing every contribution.

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