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. 2000 Feb 15;97(4):1525–1529. doi: 10.1073/pnas.97.4.1525

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Cartoon of the extended (specific) nucleus mechanism of the nucleation-condensation mechanism. This is for the extreme case of the connecting loops being unstructured. The filled circles represent native-like elements of secondary structure that interact mainly by native tertiary interactions. The shaded part of the loop illustrates an insertion of length l.