Evolutionarily conserved network properties of intrinsically disordered proteins.

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) lack a stable tertiary structure in isolation. Remarkably, however, a substantial portion of IDPs undergo disorder-to-order transitions upon binding to their cognate partners. Structural flexibility and binding plasticity enable IDPs to interact with a broad...

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Main Authors: Nivedita Rangarajan, Prakash Kulkarni, Sridhar Hannenhalli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4431869?pdf=render