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Disphscan: A Multi-Sequence Web Tool For Predicting Protein Disorder As A Function Of Ph, Carlos Pintado-Grima, Valentín Iglesias, Jaime Santos, Vladimir N. Uversky, Salvador Ventura

Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications

Proteins are exposed to fluctuating environmental conditions in their cellular context and during their biotechnological production. Disordered regions are susceptible to these fluctuations and may experience solvent-dependent conformational switches that affect their local dynamism and activity. In a recent study, we modeled the influence of pH in the conformational state of IDPs by exploiting a charge–hydrophobicity diagram that considered the effect of solution pH on both variables. However, it was not possible to predict context-dependent transitions for multiple sequences, precluding proteome-wide analysis or the screening of collections of mutants. In this article, we present DispHScan, the first computational tool dedicated …