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Intrinsically unstructured proteins: re-assessing the protein structure-function paradigm.

Peter E. Wright, +1 more
- 22 Oct 1999 - 
- Vol. 293, Iss: 2, pp 321-331
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Many proteins that lack intrinsic globular structure under physiological conditions have now been recognized, and it appears likely that their rapid turnover, aided by their unstructured nature in the unbound state, provides a level of control that allows rapid and accurate responses of the cell to changing environmental conditions.
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This article is published in Journal of Molecular Biology.The article was published on 1999-10-22. It has received 2804 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Protein structure function & Intrinsically disordered proteins.

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Intrinsic disorder is a common feature of hub proteins from four eukaryotic interactomes.

TL;DR: The results of this study demonstrate that intrinsic structural disorder is a distinctive and common characteristic of eukaryotic hub proteins, and that disorder may serve as a determinant of protein interactivity.
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Kinetics of Protein-DNA Interaction: Facilitated Target Location in Sequence-Dependent Potential

TL;DR: A search-and-fold mechanism that involves the coupling of protein binding and partial protein folding is proposed that has several important biological implications for search in the presence of other proteins and nucleosomes, simultaneous search by several proteins, etc.
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Predicting Protein Disorder for N-, C-, and Internal Regions.

TL;DR: Logistic regression, discriminant analysis, and neural networks were used to predict ordered and disordered regions in proteins to support the hypothesis that disorder is encoded by the amino acid sequence.
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The role of structural disorder in the function of RNA and protein chaperones

TL;DR: Evidence is given for the prevalence of functional regions without a well‐defined 3‐D structure in RNA and protein chaperones and a novel “entropy transfer” model is presented to account for the mechanistic role of structural disorder in chaperone function.
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Prediction of Protein Binding Regions in Disordered Proteins

TL;DR: Scanning several hundred proteomes showed that the occurrence of disordered binding sites increased with the complexity of the organisms even compared to disordered regions in general, and the length distribution of binding sites was different from disordered protein regions ingeneral and was dominated by shorter segments.
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