The order of secondary structure elements does not determine the structure of a protein but does affect its folding kinetics.
Viguera, A.R., Blanco, F.J., Serrano, L.(1995) J Mol Biol 247: 670-681
- PubMed: 7723022 
- DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1994.0171
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1TUD, 1TUC - PubMed Abstract: 
We have analyzed the structure, stability and folding kinetics of circularly permuted forms of alpha-spectrin SH3 domain. All the possible permutations involving the disruption of the covalent linkage between two beta-strands forming a beta-hairpin have been done ...