MoRF
See also: morf
English
Noun
MoRF (plural MoRFs)
- (biochemistry) Acronym of molecular recognition feature.
- 2015, Pallab Bhowmick, Mainak Guharoy, Peter Tompa, “Bioinformatics Approaches for Predicting Disordered Protein Motifs”, in Isabella C. Felli, Roberta Pierattelli, editors, Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Studied by NMR Spectroscopy (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology; 870), Springer, →ISBN, page 294:
- The p53 peptide (red cartoon) that is recognized by the folded SWIB domain (surface representation) of MDM2 (PDB code: 1YCR) is a MoRF that attains a helical bound state conformation.