Nature's rules and chemist's tools: a way for creating novel proteins.

Abstract The design of polypeptide sequences with a predetermined three-dimensional conformation is impeded by our limited knowledge of the rules governing protein folding and topology. The construction of proteins with unnatural chain architectures by making use of the tools of synthetic chemistry may overcome this fundamental problem of protein ‘ de novo design'.

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