Some proteins do not fold fully until they meet their functional partners. Folding in concert with binding allows an efficient stepwise search for the proper structure within the final complex.
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Eliezer, D., Palmer, A. Proteins hunt and gather. Nature 447, 920–921 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/447920a
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