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1、ONTHEABUNDANCEOFINTRINSICALLYDISORDEREDPROTEINSINTHEHUMANPROTEOMEANDITSRELATIONTODISEASES:THEREISNOENRICHMENTAntonioDeianaPhysicsDepartment,SapienzaUniversityofRome,P.leA.Moro2,00185Rome,Italyantonio.deiana@roma1.infn.itAndreaGiansantiPhysicsDepartment,SapienzaUnivers
2、ityofRomeandINFNsect.Roma1,P.leA.Moro2,00185Rome,Italyandrea.giansanti@roma1.infn.itKeywords:Nativelyunfoldedproteins;intrinsicdisorder;unfoldome;diseasome;cellsignalling,cancer.Abstract:Intrinsicallydisorderedproteinsarefascinatingthecommunityofproteinsciencesincethe
3、lastdecade,atleast.Thereisawell-establishedlineofresearchthatintendstorevealthecrucialroleplayedbyintrinsi-callydisorderedproteins(IDPs)inthedevelopmentofhumandiseases.ThemainargumentisthatIDPsaredifferentiallymorepresentingroupsofdisease-relatedproteins.Inthisnotewec
4、omparethefrequencyofdisorderinhumanproteins,bothdisease-relatedandnot.Thefrequencyofdisorderiscomparableinthetwosub-groupsofproteins.Disorderiswidespreadinhumanproteins,butitisnotaspecificpre-requisiteofpro-teinsinvolvedinthedevelopmentofcancer,cardiovasculardiseases,d
5、iabetesandneurodegenerativediseases.Atendencyofcancer-relatedproteinstobestatisticallymoredisorderedthantherestofhumanproteinsisconfirmed.1INTRODUCTIONInthisnotewediscussthedifferentialoccurrenceofintrinsicallydisorderedproteins(IDPs)amongdisease-relatedproteinsinthehu
6、manproteome.Onthebasisofstraightforwardobservationsweraisesomecriticalremarksabouttheoftenclaimedstrictassociationbetweentheunfoldome(Uversky,2010)andthehumandisea-some(Gohetal.,2007).InthelastdecadeagrowingnumberofscientificpublicationshavebeendevotedtoIDPs;thesearepr
7、o-teinslackingawell-definedthree-dimensionaltertiarystructureinallorpartoftheirpolypeptidechainandexistingasanensembleofflexibleconformations.IthasbeenreportedthatIDPsfulfilimportantbiologicalfunc-tionsinthecellbeinginvolvedintargeting,signallingandregulationofthecellcyc
8、le(WrightandDyson,1999;Dunkeretal.,2001;Dunkeretal.,2008;Tompa,2010;Uversky,2013;vanderLeeetal.,2014).TheabsencearXiv:1410.4