Intricate Knots in Proteins: Function and Evolution

Peter Virnau; Leonid A Mirny; Mehran Kardar

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020122

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Intricate Knots in Proteins: Function and Evolution

Peter Virnau ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: virnau@mit.edu

Affiliation Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Leonid A Mirny,

Affiliations Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Mehran Kardar

Affiliation Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Intricate Knots in Proteins: Function and Evolution

Peter Virnau,
Leonid A Mirny,
Mehran Kardar

Published: September 15, 2006
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020122

About the Authors

Peter Virnau

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: virnau@mit.edu

Affiliation Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Leonid A Mirny

Affiliations Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mehran Kardar

Affiliation Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MK conceived the study. PV designed and wrote the analysis code. PV and LM analyzed the data. PV, LM, and MK wrote the paper.

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