SnapShot: Intrinsic Structural Disorder.

Guharoy, Mainak; Pauwels, Kris; Tompa, Peter · Cell · 2015

review · Level V

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Abstract

Many proteins (intrinsically disordered proteins, IDPs) or regions of proteins (intrinsically disordered regions, IDRs) lack a well-defined 3D structure under physiological conditions. Albeit unfolded and highly dynamic, these proteins are not denatured; rather, intrinsic structural disorder is their native, functional state.

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