Dancing protein clouds: The strange biology and chaotic physics of intrinsically disordered proteins

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 291, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 6681-6688

  Uversky, Vladimir N ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTATION   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC SYSTEMS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPLEX ENTITIES; CONFORMATIONAL FLEXIBILITY; FOLDED PROTEINS; FUNCTIONAL OUTPUTS; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; PROTEIN SCIENCE; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

PROTEINS;

HYBRID PROTEIN; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; AMINO ACID; PROTEIN BINDING;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN REGION; MEMBRANELESS ORGANELLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; REVIEW; BIOGENESIS; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

AMINO ACIDS; EUKARYOTA; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84964807629     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.R115.685859     Document Type: Review

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