Why are 'natively unfolded' proteins unstructured under physiologic conditions?

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 415-427

  Uversky, Vladimir N ^a,b   Gillespie, Joel R ^a   Fink, Anthony L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTATION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Disordered protein; Natively unfolded protein; Unstructured protein; synuclein

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034669882     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0134(20001115)41:3<415::AID-PROT130>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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