Estados estructurados de proteínas desordenadas de secuencias genómicas

Agnes Toth-Petroczy1, Perry Palmedo2, John Ingraham1

  • 1Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Cell
|September 24, 2016
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores desarrollaron un nuevo método para predecir la estructura de las proteínas desordenadas. Este enfoque identifica estados de proteínas funcionales y ordenados dentro de regiones intrínsecamente desordenadas, ayudando a la investigación de enfermedades.

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