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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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Structural features and cytotoxicity of amyloid oligomers: Implications in Alzheimer's disease and other diseases with amyloid deposits

TL;DR: The notion that oligomer-membrane interaction, disruption of membrane integrity and cell impairment results from both oligomer and membrane biophysical features can be the result of the interplay of these events can help explaining the variable vulnerability of different cell types to the same amyloids and the lack of relation between amyloid load and severity of clinical symptoms.
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Functional roles of transiently and intrinsically disordered regions within proteins

TL;DR: This review represents some of the key functions of transiently and intrinsically disordered protein regions, which are induced by transient alterations in protein environment or by modification of protein structure, that possess very different functional repertoires.
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The roles of intrinsic disorder in protein interaction networks

TL;DR: This review examines the roles of intrinsic disorder in protein network architecture and shows that there are three general ways that intrinsic disorder can contribute: First, intrinsic Disorder can serve as the structural basis for hub protein promiscuity; secondly, intrinsically disordered proteins can bind to structured hub proteins; and thirdly, intrinsic disorderCan provide flexible linkers between functional domains with the linkers enabling mechanisms that facilitate binding diversity.
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Expanding the proteome: disordered and alternatively folded proteins.

TL;DR: This review provides a survey of recent new directions in the role not only of intrinsically disordered proteins but also of partially structured and highly dynamic members of the disorder–order continuum.
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Intrinsic Disorder in the Protein Data Bank

TL;DR: This study compares the amino-acid sequences of proteins whose structures are determined by X-ray crystallography with the corresponding sequences from the Swiss-Prot database and showed that completely ordered proteins are not highly abundant in PDB and many PDB sequences have disordered regions.
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