Abstract
Expository Talk: Knotting in proteins
Helen Wong
Claremont McKenna College
A small but significant portion of proteins contain knots, and the knotting is believed to be significant to their biological function. However, very little is known about how those proteins fold into their knotted native states. In this talk, we will discuss topological methods to characterize the knotting, and how the resulting topological information can be used to develop and test theoretical folding pathways for knotted proteins.
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