
Dancing Protein Clouds: Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Health and Disease, Part B
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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 everyone 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
Preface
Vladimir N. Uversky
1. Intrinsically disordered proteins of viruses: Involvement in the mechanism of cell regulation and pathogenesis
Pushpendra Mani Mishra, Navneet C Verma, Chethana Rao, Vladimir N Uversky and Chayan K Nandi
2. Transient knots in intrinsically disordered proteins and neurodegeneration
Marek Cieplak, Mateusz Chwastyk, Łukasz Mioduszewski and Belisa R. H. de Aquino
3. IDPs and their complexes in GPCR and nuclear receptor signaling
Myriam Guillien, Albane le Maire, Assia Mouhand, Pau Bernadó, William Bourguet, Jean-Louis Banères and Nathalie Sibille
4. Intrinsic disorder-based design of stable globular proteins
Galina S. Nagibina, Tatiana N. Melnik, Ksenia A. Glukhova, Vladimir N. Uversky and Bogdan S. Melnik
5. The pathophysiology of neurodegenerative disease: Disturbing the balance between phase separation and irreversible aggregation
Chelsea J. Webber, Shuwen (Eric) Lei and Benjamin Wolozin
6. Context-dependent HOX transcription factor function in health and disease
Sarah E. Bondos, Gabriela Geraldo Mendes and Amanda Jons
7. Dancing while self-eating: Protein intrinsic disorder in autophagy
Hana Popelka
8. Intrinsic disorder in the nickel-dependent urease network
Barbara Zambelli, Luca Mazzei and Stefano Ciurli
9. Disorder and cysteines in proteins: A design for orchestration of conformational see-saw and modulatory functions
Anukool A. Bhopatkar, Vladimir N. Uversky and Vijayaraghavan Rangachari
Product details
- No. of pages: 402
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: August 19, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128226049
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128226155
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Vladimir Uversky

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