Functional roles of transiently and intrinsically disordered regions within proteins

FEBS Journal

Volumn 282, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1182-1189

  Uversky, Vladimir N ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

foldon; induced foldon; intrinsically disordered protein; intrinsically disordered region; molecular recognition; nonfoldon; post translational modification; protein protein interaction; semi foldon; unfoldon

Indexed keywords

FOLDON; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED REGION; NONFOLDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; REVIEW; SEMI FOLDON; UNFOLDON; CHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN;

INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84926068561     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.13202     Document Type: Review

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