Instrumental techniques for analyzing intrinsically disordered
proteins
The recently recognized phenomenon of protein intrinsic disorder
is gaining significant interest among researchers, especially as
the number of proteins and protein domains that have been shown to
be intrinsically disordered rapidly grows. The first reference to
tackle this little-documented area, Instrumental Analysis of
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Assessing Structure and
Conformation provides researchers with a much-needed,
comprehensive summary of recent achievements in the methods for
structural characterization of intrinsically disordered proteins
(IDPs).
Chapters discuss:
* Assessment of IDPs in the living cell
* Spectroscopic techniques for the analysis of IDPs, including NMR
and EPR spectroscopies, FTIR, circular dichroism, fluorescence
spectroscopy, vibrational methods, and single-molecule analysis
* Single-molecule techniques applied to the study of IDPs
* Assessment of IDP size and shape
* Tools for the analysis of IDP conformational stability
* Mass spectrometry
* Approaches for expression and purification of IDPs
With contributions from an international selection of leading
researchers, Instrumental Analysis of Intrinsically Disordered
Proteins: Assessing Structure and Conformation fills an
important need in a rapidly growing field. It is required reading
for biochemists, biophysicists, molecular biologists, geneticists,
cell biologists, physiologists, and specialists in drug design and
development, proteomics, and molecular medicine with an interest in
proteins and peptides.
Circa l’autore
Vladimir N. Uversky, Ph D, is a Senior Research Professor at
the Indiana University School of Medicine. He obtained his academic
degrees from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Ph D) and
the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian
Academy of Sciences. Professor Uversky has authored over 300
scientific publications and edited several books and book series on
protein structure, function, folding, and misfolding. He is also an
editor of several scientific journals.
Sonia Longhi, Ph D, is a Director of Research at the
Center for the National Scientific Research (CNRS), heading the
Structural Disorder and Molecular Recognition group within the AFMB
laboratory. She obtained her Ph D from the Università degli
Studi of Milan in 1993. She has authored more than sixty scientific
publications and edited a book on measles virus nucleoprotein.
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