Predicting Protein Conformational Disorder and Disordered Binding Sites

Overview

Journal Methods Mol Biol

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 2022 May 4

PMID 35507260

Authors

Ketty C Tamburrini

Giulia Pesce

Juliet Nilsson

Frank Gondelaud

Andrey V Kajava

Jean-Guy Berrin

Sonia Longhi

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Abstract

In the last two decades it has become increasingly evident that a large number of proteins adopt either a fully or a partially disordered conformation. Intrinsically disordered proteins are ubiquitous proteins that fulfill essential biological functions while lacking a stable 3D structure. Their conformational heterogeneity is encoded by the amino acid sequence, thereby allowing intrinsically disordered proteins or regions to be recognized based on their sequence properties. The identification of disordered regions facilitates the functional annotation of proteins and is instrumental for delineating boundaries of protein domains amenable to crystallization. This chapter focuses on the methods currently employed for predicting protein disorder and identifying intrinsically disordered binding sites.

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