The interplay of the presence of nickel and protein disorder in processes affecting human
health is the focus of the present review. Many systems involving nickel as either a cofactor …

Defensins are moonlighting peptides which are broadly distributed throughout all the living
kingdoms. They play a multitude of important roles in human health and disease …

Over the last few decades, concepts of protein intrinsic disorder have been implicated in
different biological processes. Recent studies have suggested that intrinsically disordered …

Plants use light for photosynthesis and for various signaling purposes. The UV wavelengths
in sunlight also introduce DNA damage in the form of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) …

Spondins, which are proteins that inhibit and promote adherence of embryonic cells so as to
aid axonal growth are part of the thrombospondin-1 family. Spondins function in several …

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) encompass a wide variety of proteins characterized
by their flexible and disordered nature and have no clear equilibrium state. To better …

Chaos automata are a rich class of models that combine iterated function systems with finite
state automata. This merger creates models capable of transforming sequences of input …

Abstract Poly (ADP-ribosyl) ation (PARylation) is a complex and reversible posttranslational
modification catalyzed by poly (ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARPs), which thereby …

Endogenous and exogenous agents that can damage DNA are a constant threat to genome
stability in all living cells. In response, cells have evolved an array of mechanisms to repair …