3 days in a row over 2.7M. Looks like that is the new normal as long as a few of our folding brothers hang out with us here.
By the way, there is a really interesting article in the April Scientific American on protein folding.
Here is a link to a brief description, but you'll have to pay $6 to dl or buy the print version (also $6) to read it unfortunately. Normally they have a SciAm digital subscription you can get independently of the print version but they say they're not taking new subscriptions since they are redesigning the site.
Anyway, the traditional view of proteins is that they fold into a rigid 3 dimensional shape - sometimes on their own due to the interplay of regions that are hydophilic and those that are hydrophobic. Often you need other specialized proteins (chaperonins) to help the process along.
But it turns out that about a third of human proteins have sections that have no predetermined shape. Parts of the protein might be rigid, but other parts are completely mushy (amorphous).
It's speculation right now, but they guess that proteins that function as enzymes have a well-defined, rigid structure while the mushier ones tend to be used for signaling and communication within the cell.
If you're heavy into folding, it's worth checking out. For the 6 bucks though I would get the magazine. There's a lot of interesting stuff in this month's issue. There are even short articles on asthma, IBM's Watson, dengue fever, etc, etc.
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