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Dino Osmanovic1, Yitzhak Rabin2.
Abstract
A significant part of the proteome is composed of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). These proteins do not fold into a well-defined structure and behave like ordinary polymers. In this work, we consider IDPs that have the tendency to aggregate, model them as heteropolymers that contain a small number of associating monomers, and use computer simulations to compare the aggregation of such IDPs that are grafted to a surface or free in solution. We then discuss how such grafting may affect the analysis of in vitro experiments and could also be used to suppress harmful aggregation.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29395045 PMCID: PMC5985032 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.08.062
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biophys J ISSN: 0006-3495 Impact factor: 4.033