Relating sequence encoded information to form and function of intrinsically disordered proteins

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 102-112

  Das, Rahul K ^a   Ruff, Kiersten M ^a   Pappu, Rohit V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

C TERMINAL REGION OF THE POSTERIOR SEX COMBS SUBUNIT OF THE POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1; FG NUCLEOPORIN; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN; NUCLEOPORIN; POLAR TRACT PROTEIN; POLYAMPHOLYTE PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POLYELECTROLYTE; PROTEIN PHC3; RECOMBINATION ACTIVATION GENE 2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN BINDING;

AMIDATION; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ATOMISTIC SIMULATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CITRULLINATION; COMPOSITION TO CONFORMATION RELATIONSHIP; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONAL PLASTICITY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMER PHYSICS THEORY; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ACETYLATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND VARIABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE TO CONFORMATION RELATIONSHIP; SHORT LINEAR MOTIF; SOLVATION; STERILE ALPHA MOTIF; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THEORY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84961288478     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2015.03.008     Document Type: Review

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