The most important thing is the tail: Multitudinous functionalities of intrinsically disordered protein termini

FEBS Letters

Volumn 587, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 1891-1901

  Uversky, Vladimir N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTATION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Intrinsically disordered protein Disordered protein terminus Protein function Entropic chain Protein interaction Chaperone

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; PROTEOLYSIS;

EID: 84878899241     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.04.042     Document Type: Review

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