“…Additionally, the hordeivirus TGBp1s have a long N-terminal extension region preceding the NTPase/ helicase domain that is variable in sequence and length with multiple RNA-binding sites (Donald et al, 1997;Kalinina et al, 2001;Morozov & Solovyev, 2003;Makarov et al, 2009). Combining several disorder prediction methods and experimental approaches, it was demonstrated that this region of the PSLV TGBp1 (referred to as N63K in our previous work; Kalinina et al, 2001) has large intrinsically disordered areas and consists of two domains -a completely intrinsically disordered extreme N-terminal domain (NTD) (aa and an internal domain (ID) (aa 200-290) with structure resembling a partially disordered molten globule (Makarov et al, 2009(Makarov et al, , 2012. Both domains demonstrate the ability for nonspecific RNA binding: NTD interacts with RNA noncooperatively and ID interacts cooperatively (Makarov et al, 2009); the whole N63K binds to RNA in a non-cooperative manner .…”