Communications Biology (Apr 2022)

Phase separation driven by interchangeable properties in the intrinsically disordered regions of protein paralogs

  • Shih-Hui Chiu,
  • Wen-Lin Ho,
  • Yung-Chen Sun,
  • Jean-Cheng Kuo,
  • Jie-rong Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03354-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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A comparison of structure-function relationship for intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) among paralogs shows that differences in physicochemical properties of the IDR between paralogs are compensated for to converge on the same biophysical function.