Exploring Protein Intrinsic Disorder with MobiDB

Methods Mol Biol. 2020:2141:127-143. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0524-0_6.

Abstract

Nowadays, it is well established that many proteins or regions under physiological conditions lack a fixed three-dimensional structure and are intrinsically disordered. MobiDB is the main repository of protein disorder and mobility annotations, combining different data sources to provide an exhaustive overview of intrinsic disorder. MobiDB includes curated annotations from other databases, indirect disorder evidence from structural data, and disorder predictions from protein sequences. It provides an easy-to-use web server to visualize and explore disorder information. This chapter describes the data available in MobiDB, emphasizing how to use and access the intrinsic disorder data. MobiDB is available at URL http://mobidb.bio.unipd.it .

Keywords: Database; Disorder annotation; Disorder prediction; IDP; IDR; Intrinsic disorder; Intrinsically disordered proteins; Intrinsically disordered regions; MobiDB; Structural flexibility.

MeSH terms

  • Databases, Protein*
  • Intrinsically Disordered Proteins / chemistry*
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Sequence Annotation
  • beta Catenin / chemistry

Substances

  • Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
  • beta Catenin