Advantages of proteins being disordered

Protein Science

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 539-550

  Liu, Zhirong ^a,b   Huang, Yongqi ^a,b,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug design; Flexibility; Intrinsically disordered proteins; Molecular recognition; Protein design; Protein function; Protein protein interaction

Indexed keywords

INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED REGION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; STEREOSPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ANIMALS; GENOME; HUMANS; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 84901017485     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.2443     Document Type: Review

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