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We compared residues that are involved in local contacts to residues that are involved in non-local contacts and found that, in most proteins, residues in non-local contacts are significantly more conserved evolutionarily than residues in local contacts. Moreover, non-local contacts are more structurally conserved: a contact between positions that are distant in sequence is more likely to exist in many structural homologues compared with a contact between positions that are close in sequence. These results provide new insights into the mechanisms of protein folding and may allow for better prediction of critical intra-chain contacts.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0yanay@ofranlab.org<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bts694","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,12,2]],"date-time":"2012-12-02T03:02:49Z","timestamp":1354417369000},"page":"331-337","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Non-local residue\u2013residue contacts in proteins are more conserved than local ones"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"29","author":[{"given":"Orly","family":"Noivirt-Brik","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel and 2The Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel"}]},{"given":"Gershon","family":"Hazan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel and 2The Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel"}]},{"given":"Ron","family":"Unger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel and 2The Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel"}]},{"given":"Yanay","family":"Ofran","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel and 2The Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,11,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012810221826600_bts694-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"205","DOI":"10.1016\/S0065-3233(08)60413-1","article-title":"Experimental and theoretical aspects of protein folding","volume":"29","author":"Anfinsen","year":"1975","journal-title":"Adv. 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