In peptidoglycan the amino acids occur in an alternating pattern of D and L forms

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Predictor of Natural Disordered Regions or PONDR is one of the best available algorithms for predicting the likelihood that a given amino acid residue is in a region of intrinsic disorder, based on the surrounding amino acid sequence and amino acid composition. 

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A PONDR score of 1.0 indicates a probability of 100% that a protein will be disordered.

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The mammalian protein p53 also have both structured and unstructured segments. With its unstructured region at the carboxyl terminus four different proteins.

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Thermodynamic measurements indicate that native proteins are only marginally stable under physiological conditions. The free energy required to denature them is ∼0.4 kJ ∙ mol−1 per amino acid residue.

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Protein stability is the net balance of forces, which determine whether a protein will be in its native folded conformation or a denatured state.

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A fully folded 100-residue protein is only about 40 kJ ∙ mol−1 more stable than its unfolded form (for comparison, the energy required to break a typical hydrogen bond is ∼20 kJ ∙ mol−1).