misinteract

verb

1. To interact incorrectly; to take part in an inappropriate interaction.

   “Even the rampant spread of psychological thinking has largely failed to awaken us to the ways we interact and misinteract in life.”

   “If the N‐terminal domain of multidomain proteins could fold into its proper form before the polypeptide constituting the next domain comes out of the ribosome, it would reduce the chance of the coming polypeptide to misinteract with a part of the first domain.”

   “First, a potential cost to imbalance is that 'leftover' proteins without remaining functional partners are free to misinteract.”