Flexible peptides and cytoplasmic gels.
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.
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Dennis
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Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK. db10009@cam.ac.uk
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*
D010455:Peptides; D011108:Polymers; D011506:Proteins