# Carlos Bustamante Back to [[Ribosome Pausing and Cotranslational Folding]] · [[Research and Evidence]] **Role:** Single-molecule biophysicist; UC Berkeley ⚠️ - Senior author of [Alexander et al. 2019](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10647-6): optical tweezers show that translation suppresses misfolding of the nascent chain. A real version of the post's "FOLD" step. ⚠️ Affiliations are from general knowledge and were not rechecked for this note; the papers linked were verified via CrossRef or the publisher.