Paradoxes and Wonders of Intrinsic Disorder: Complexity of Simplicity

Overview

Journal Intrinsically Disord Proteins

Date 2017 Feb 25

PMID 28232895

Citations 29

Authors

Vladimir N Uversky

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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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