Dynamics of Protein Folding

-Abnormal Diffusion and Hierarchical Regularity-

Abstract

The observed kinetics of protein folding is a consequence of averaging over an ensemble of many activated barrier crossings with multiple time scales. The future of the recent remarkable experimental developments in single molecule spectroscopy holds great promise to reveal the complexity of protein folding dynamics. A few theoretical possible means to address and clarify the dynamical complexity such as abnormal diffusion of a protein are presented.