Dynamic New World: Refining Our View of Protein Structure, Function and Evolution

Dynamic New World: Refining Our View of Protein Structure, Function and Evolution

Proteins are crucial to the functioning of all lifeforms. Traditional understanding posits that a single protein occupies a single structure (“fold”), which performs a single function. This view is radically challenged with the recognition that high structural dynamism—the capacity to be extra “flop...

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Main Author: Ranjan V. Mannige
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-03-01
Series:Proteomes
Subjects:
protein dynamism
intrinsically disordered
structure
function
promiscuity
evolution
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/2/1/128

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