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ReviewMolecular and cellular biochemistry2009

Disorder-to-order conformational transitions in protein structure and its relationship to disease.

Paola Mendoza-Espinosa, Victor García-González, Abel Moreno, Rolando Castillo, Jaime Mas-Oliva

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Review in Molecular and cellular biochemistry, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Paola Mendoza-EspinosaInstituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. Postal 70-243, 04510, Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
Victor García-González
Abel Moreno
Rolando Castillo
Jaime Mas-Oliva
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México · MX

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Function in proteins largely depends on the acquisition of specific structures through folding at physiological time scales. Under both equilibrium and non-equilibrium states, proteins develop partially structured molecules that being intermediates in the process, usually resemble the structure of the fully folded protein. These intermediates, known as molten globules, present the faculty of adopting a large variety of conformations mainly supported by changes in their side chains. Taking into account that the mechanism to obtain a fully packed structure is considered more difficult energetically than forming partially "disordered" folding intermediates, evolution might have conferred upon an important number of proteins the capability to first partially fold and-depending on the presence of specific partner ligands-switch on disorder-to-order transitions to adopt a highly ordered well-folded state and reach the lowest energy conformation possible. Disorder in this context can represent segments of proteins or complete proteins that might exist in the native state. Moreover, because this type of disorder-to-order transition in proteins has been found to be reversible, it has been frequently associated with important signaling events in the cell. Due to the central role of this phenomenon in cell biology, protein misfolding and aberrant disorder-to-order transitions have been at present associated with an important number of diseases.

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Phase TransitionAmyloidosisDiseaseHumansProtein FoldingProteinsThermodynamicsProteins

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PMID19357935
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