New technique for studying membrane-associated intrinsically disordered proteins
Published Date: 1/15/2024
Source: phys.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are widely found in the proteomes of eukaryotes and play key roles in life processes such as transcription of genetic information and signaling. Apart from being usually highly repetitive, hydrophilic and electrically charged as well as encoding simple sequences of genes, IDPs also distinguish themselves in their natural abundance and structural aspects, which become the basis of the "disorder–function paradigm" of proteins.