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BIOMOLECULES
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom13010124
Keywords
intrinsically disordered proteins; integrative structural biology; unfolded; unstructured; flexible; protein function
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Intense study of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) began in the late 1990s and revealed their important functions. Over the past two decades, it has become clear that IDPs play critical roles in various biological phenomena. The application of integrative structural biology has emerged as an essential approach to understanding IDP phenomena.
Intense study of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) did not begin in earnest until the late 1990s when a few groups, working independently, convinced the community that these 'weird' proteins could have important functions. Over the past two decades, it has become clear that IDPs play critical roles in a multitude of biological phenomena with prominent examples including coordination in signaling hubs, enabling gene regulation, and regulating ion channels, just to name a few. One contributing factor that delayed appreciation of IDP functional significance is the experimental difficulty in characterizing their dynamic conformations. The combined application of multiple methods, termed integrative structural biology, has emerged as an essential approach to understanding IDP phenomena. Here, we review some of the recent applications of the integrative structural biology philosophy to study IDPs.
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