elinkyklin
Elinkyklin is a fictional modular adaptor protein used in theoretical discussions of cellular signaling and synthetic biology. It serves as a pedagogical construct to illustrate how multivalent interactions can shape the behavior of signaling networks.
In the canonical description, elinkyklin is a single polypeptide with several modular binding domains connected by
Functionally, elinkyklin acts as a scaffold that assembles signaling complexes, recruits enzymes to substrates, and modulates
As a design concept, elinkyklin is often described using fictional amino-acid sequences or by analogy to real
Applications in teaching include demonstrating how modularity, localization, and cooperative binding influence signal transduction. Limitations arise
See also scaffold protein, modular protein, protein-protein interaction network.