Genomic analysis of intrinsically disordered proteins in cereals: From mining to meaning.

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are highly abundant in eukaryotic proteomes and involved in key biological and cellular processes. Although some resources of disordered protein predictions are available from animal and plant proteomes, those related to cereals are largely unknown. Here, we present an overview of IDPomes from Oryza sativa, Zea mays, Sorghum bicolor and Brachypodium distachyon. The work includes a comparative analysis with the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The data show that the intrinsic disorder content increases with the proteome size. Gene Ontology analysis reveals that IDPs in the studied species are involved mainly in regulation of cellular and metabolic processes and responses to stimulus. Our findings strongly suggest that higher plants may use common cellular and regulatory mechanisms for adaptation to various environmental constraints.

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