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ReviewIntrinsically disordered proteins

The alphabet of intrinsic disorder: I. Act like a Pro: On the abundance and roles of proline residues in intrinsically disordered proteins.

Francois-Xavier Theillet, Lajos Kalmar, Peter Tompa, Kyou-Hoon Han, Philipp Selenko, A Keith Dunker, Gary W Daughdrill, Vladimir N Uversky

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Francois-Xavier TheilletIn-cell NMR Spectroscopy; Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology (FMP Berlin); Berlin, Germany.
Lajos KalmarVIB Department of Structural Biology; Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Brussels, Belgium.
Peter TompaVIB Department of Structural Biology; Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Brussels, Belgium.
Kyou-Hoon HanDepartment of Bioinformatics; University of Science and Technology; Daejeon, Yuseong-gu, Korea.
Philipp SelenkoIn-cell NMR Spectroscopy; Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology (FMP Berlin); Berlin, Germany.
A Keith DunkerCenter for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Indiana University School of Medicine; Indianapolis, IN USA.
Gary W DaughdrillCenter for Drug Discovery and Innovation; Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology; University of South Florida; Tampa, FL USA.
Vladimir N UverskyDepartment of Molecular Medicine and USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute; College of Medicine; University of South Florida; Tampa, FL USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A significant fraction of every proteome is occupied by biologically active proteins that do not form unique three-dimensional structures. These intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and IDP regions (IDPRs) have essential biological functions and are characterized by extensive structural plasticity. Such structural and functional behavior is encoded in the amino acid sequences of IDPs/IDPRs, which are enriched in disorder-promoting residues and depleted in order-promoting residues. In fact, amino acid residues can be arranged according to their disorder-promoting tendency to form an alphabet of intrinsic disorder that defines the structural complexity and diversity of IDPs/IDPRs. This review is the first in a series of publications dedicated to the roles that different amino acid residues play in defining the phenomenon of protein intrinsic disorder. We start with proline because data suggests that of the 20 common amino acid residues, this one is the most disorder-promoting.

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cis-trans isomerizationconformational restrictionintrinsically disordered proteinpost-translational modificationprotein solubilityprotein surfaces

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PMCPMC5424786

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