title: Flexible peptides and cytoplasmic gels.
abstract: Recent progress in predicting protein structures has revealed a surprising abundance of proteins that are significantly unfolded under physiological conditions. Unstructured, flexible polypeptides are likely to be functionally important and may cause local cytoplasmic regions to become gel-like.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK. db10009@cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bray
mesh_terms: D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000502:physiology; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000737:chemistry*; D008954:Models, Biological; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D018583:Pliability; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry; D017510:Protein Folding; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides; D011108:Polymers; D011506:Proteins