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Conformational Flexibility May Explain Multiple Cellular Roles of PEST Motifs

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Title Conformational Flexibility May Explain Multiple Cellular Roles of PEST Motifs
 
Creator Sandhu, Kuljeet Singh
Dash, Debasis
 
Subject BI1 Bioinformatics (General)
 
Description PEST sequences are one of the major motifs that serve as signal for the protein degradation and are also involved in various cellular processes such as phosphorylation and protein-protein interaction. In our earlier study, we found that these motifs contribute largely to eukaryotic protein disorder. This observation led us to evaluate their conformational variability in the nonredundant Protein Data Bank (PDB) structures. For this purpose, crystallographic temperature factors, structural alignment of multiple NMR models, and dihedral angle order parameters have been used in this study. The study has revealed the hypermobility of PEST motifs as compared to other regions of the protein. Conformational flexibility may allow them to participate in number of molecular interactions under different conditions. This analysis may explain the role of protein backbone flexibility in bringing about multiple cellular roles of PEST motifs.
 
Date 2006-02-21
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://openaccess.igib.res.in/126/1/Pest%20multiple%20cellular%20roles%20Sandhu.pdf
Sandhu, Kuljeet Singh and Dash, Debasis (2006) Conformational Flexibility May Explain Multiple Cellular Roles of PEST Motifs. Conformational flexibility may explain multiple cellular roles of PEST motifs, 63 (4). pp. 727-732.
 
Relation http://openaccess.igib.res.in/126/