Bray Dennis
Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK.
Genome Biol. 2005;6(3):106. doi: 10.1186/gb-2005-6-3-106. Epub 2005 Feb 28.
Recent progress in predicting protein structures has revealed a surprising abundance of proteins that are significantly unfolded under physiological conditions. Unstructured, flexible polypeptides are likely to be functionally important and may cause local cytoplasmic regions to become gel-like.