Intrinsic disorder: A term to define the specific physicochemical characteristic of protein conformational heterogeneity.

Mol Cell

Molecular Medicine Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto ON M5G 0A4, Canada; Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto ON M5S 1A8, Canada. Electronic address:

Published: April 2024

In his commentary in this issue of Molecular Cell, Struhl reasons that the term "intrinsically disordered regions" represents a vague and confusing concept for protein function. However, the term "intrinsically disordered" highlights the important physicochemical characteristic of conformational heterogeneity. Thus, "intrinsically disordered" is the counterpart to the term "folded, " with neither term having specific functional implications.

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