OU appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

In the August 26th issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, OU Assistant Professor John Finke and coauthors reported more of their results on protein folding. Their paper "The Dual-Basin Landscape in GFP Folding" (PNAS, vol. 105, pp. 12283-12288, 2008) analyzes Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), often used as a fluorescent marker because it fluoresces green when exposed to blue light. GFP folds in two steps: a fast folding event followed by a slow, final "locking" step. Finke and his colleagues use a combination of experimental and computational methods to understand the details of how GFP folds.