For some starting points, google "electrostatic interactions in intrinsically disordered proteins". Of course they occur in IDPs; they even have proportionally more charged residues than folded proteins.
Petri On Nov 3, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Xiaodi Yu wrote: > Dear All: > > I have a quick question: how common it is that electrostatic interactions are > involved in intra-molecular interactions, particularly in intrinsically > disordered proteins? Is this interaction specific and any example? > > Thanks, > > Dee > > Xiaodi Yu, Ph.D. > Boston Children's Hospital & > Dana-Farber Cancer Institute > Harvard Medical School > 3 Blackfan > Boston, MA 02115 > > --- Petri Kursula, PhD Group Leader, Docent of Neurobiochemistry Department of Biochemistry & Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland Department of Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Germany Visiting Scientist (CSSB-HZI, DESY, Hamburg, Germany) www.biochem.oulu.fi/kursula www.desy.de/~petri petri.kurs...@oulu.fi petri.kurs...@desy.de ---
