The contribution of intrinsically disordered regions to protein function, cellular complexity, and human disease

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1185-1200

  Babu, M Madan ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DISEASES; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; APOPTOSIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; DISEASE; HUMANS; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 85009913149     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20160172     Document Type: Review

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