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Which consequence results when a complex protein's folding energy landscape exhibits multiple local minima?

A)Increased catalytic activity
B)Enhanced thermal stability
C)Protein misfolding aggregation
D)Decreased substrate specificity

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Protein misfolding aggregation occurs because the protein folding funnel guides the protein into local energy minima, and becomes kinetically trapped; therefore the correctly-folded native state is not reached, rather than the protein adopting its functional, lowest-energy conformation.

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