Are structural proteins in insect cuticles dominated by intrinsically disordered regions?

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 620-627

  Andersen, Svend Olav ^a  

^a Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Helix; Strands; Disordered regions; Predictors; R R consensus; Resilin

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; RESILIN;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELASTICITY; INSECT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 79959512137     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2011.03.015     Document Type: Article

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