Paradoxes and Wonders of Intrinsic Disorder: Complexity of Simplicity

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

Keywords

amino acid alphabet, complexity, functional complexity, intrinsically disordered proteins, structural content, structural heterogeneity

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1080/21690707.2015.1135015

Abstract

At first glance it may seem that intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and IDP regions (IDPRs) are simpler than ordered proteins and domains on multiple levels. However, such multilevel simplicity equips these proteins with the ability to have very complex behavior.

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Citation / Publisher Attribution

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, v. 4, issue 1, art. e1135015

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