
Dancing protein clouds: Intrinsically disordered proteins in health and disease, Part A
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Key Features
- Provides some recent studies on the intrinsically disordered proteins and their functions, as well as on the involvement of intrinsically disordered proteins in pthogenesis of various diseases
- Contains numerous illustrative materials (color figures, diagrams, and tables) to help the readers to delve in the information provided
- Includes contributions from recognized experts in the field
Readership
Scientists working in the fields of biochemistry, biophysics, molecular medicine, biotechnology, pharmacology and drug discovery, molecular and cellular biology, as well as students of Medical Schools, Departments of Biochemistry, Biophysics, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, etc. This book is of interest to everybody, who is fascinated by the protein intrinsic disorder phenomenon, including graduate students, postdoctoral students, and experienced researchers studying intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), their structures, and functions
Table of Contents
1. Protein intrinsic disorder and structure-function continuum
Vladimir N. Uversky
2. Intrinsic disorder associated with 14-3-3 proteins and their partners
Nikolai N. Sluchanko and Diego M. Bustos
3. Intrinsically disordered proteins and phenotypic switching: Implications in cancer
Vivek Kulkarni and Prakash Kulkarni
4. Translational diffusion of unfolded and intrinsically disordered proteins
Irina V. Nesmelova, Daria L. Melnikova, Venkatesh Ranjan and Vladimir D. Skirda
5. Intrinsically disordered proteins in the formation of functional amyloids from bacteria to humans
Anamika Avni, Hema M. Swasthi, Anupa Majumdar and Samrat Mukhopadhyay
6. Intrinsically disordered proteins in various hypotheses on the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases
Orkid Coskuner and Vladimir N. Uversky
7. Shear-induced amyloid formation of IDPS in the brain
Conrad N. Trumbore
8. Role of intrinsic disorder in muscle sarcomeres
Dmitri Tolkatchev, Garry E. Smith Jr. and Alla S. Kostyukova
9. Computational prediction of functions of intrinsically disordered regions
Akila Katuwawala, Sina Ghadermarzi and Lukasz Kurgan
10. The dark proteome of cancer: Intrinsic disorderedness and functionality of HIF-1α along with its interacting proteins
Neha Garg, Prateek Kumar, Kundlik Gadhave and Rajanish Giri
Product details
- No. of pages: 424
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: September 11, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128168516
- eBook ISBN: 9780128168523
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Vladimir N. Uversky

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