Percentage of proteins containing long (>30 residue) disordered segments

Range Archaea 2: Eubacteria 4.2: Eukaryotes 33 %
Organism Various
Reference Uversky VN. Intrinsically disordered proteins from A to Z. Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 2011 Aug43(8):1090-103. doi: 10.1016/j.biocel.2011.04.001. p.1098 left column top paragraphPubMed ID21501695
Primary Source Ward JJ, Sodhi JS, McGuffin LJ, Buxton BF, Jones DT. Prediction and functional analysis of native disorder in proteins from the three kingdoms of life. J Mol Biol. 2004 Mar 26 337(3):635-45.PubMed ID15019783
Comments "In an independent study, long (>30 residue) disordered segments were found to occur in 2.0% of archaean, 4.2% of eubacterial and 33.0% of eukaryotic proteins (primary source)."
Entered by Uri M
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