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ArticleCell communication and signaling : CCS2012

What's in a loop?

Stephan M Feller, Marc Lewitzky

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Article in Cell communication and signaling : CCS, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Evolution of Intrinsic Disorder in Protein Loops.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Stephan M FellerBiological Systems Architecture Group, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DS, UK. stephan.feller@imm.ox.ac.uk.
Marc Lewitzky

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNAs and proteins are major classes of biomolecules that differ in many aspects. However, a considerable number of their members also share a common architectural feature that enables the assembly of multi-protein complexes and thereby permits the effective processing of signals: loop structures of substantial sizes. Here we briefly review a few representative examples and suggest a functional classification of different types of loop structures. In proteins, these loops occur in protein regions classified as intrinsically disordered. Studying such loops, their binders and their interactions with other loops should reveal much about cellular information computation and signaling network architectures. It is also expected to provide critical information for synthetic biologists and bioengineers.

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PMID23110718
PMCPMC3538565

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