Genetically tunable frustration controls allostery in an intrinsically disordered transcription factor

J Li, JT White, H Saavedra, JO Wrabl, HN Motlagh… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) present a functional paradox because they lack
stable tertiary structure, but nonetheless play a central role in signaling, utilizing a process …

Intrinsic disorder as a mechanism to optimize allosteric coupling in proteins

VJ Hilser, EB Thompson - Proceedings of the National …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Transcription factors and other allosteric cell signaling proteins contain a disproportionate
number of domains or segments that are intrinsically disordered (ID) under native …

Interplay between allostery and intrinsic disorder in an ensemble

HN Motlagh, J Li, EB Thompson… - Biochemical Society …, 2012 - portlandpress.com
Allostery is a biological phenomenon of critical importance in metabolic regulation and cell
signalling. The fundamental premise of classical models that describe allostery is that …

Targeting intrinsically disordered transcription factors: changing the paradigm

K Tsafou, PB Tiwari, JD Forman-Kay, SJ Metallo… - Journal of molecular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Increased understanding of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and protein regions has
revolutionized our view of the relationship between protein structure and function. Data now …

Multivalency enables unidirectional switch-like competition between intrinsically disordered proteins

RB Berlow, HJ Dyson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Intrinsically disordered proteins must compete for binding to common regulatory targets to
carry out their biological functions. Previously, we showed that the activation domains of two …

Synergistic folding of two intrinsically disordered proteins: searching for conformational selection

D Ganguly, W Zhang, J Chen - Molecular BioSystems, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) lack stable structures under physiological conditions
but often fold into stable structures upon specific binding. These coupled binding and folding …

Site-specific phosphorylation induces functionally active conformation in the intrinsically disordered N-terminal activation function (AF1) domain of the glucocorticoid …

AMS Garza, SH Khan, R Kumar - Molecular and cellular biology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Intrinsically disordered (ID) regions are disproportionately higher in cell signaling proteins
and are predicted to have much larger frequency of phosphorylation sites than ordered …

Intrinsically disordered proteins: regulation and disease

MM Babu, R van der Lee, NS de Groot… - Current opinion in …, 2011 - Elsevier
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are enriched in signaling and regulatory functions
because disordered segments permit interaction with several proteins and hence the re-use …

Eukaryotic transcription factors: paradigms of protein intrinsic disorder

L Staby, C O'Shea, M Willemoës, F Theisen… - Biochemical …, 2017 - portlandpress.com
Gene-specific transcription factors (TFs) are key regulatory components of signaling
pathways, controlling, for example, cell growth, development, and stress responses. Their …

Role of intrinsically disordered protein regions/domains in transcriptional regulation

AS Garza, N Ahmad, R Kumar - Life sciences, 2009 - Elsevier
In recent years, it has become quite evident that numerous proteins exist as an ensemble of
conformers that collectively appears to be intrinsically disordered (ID). Of particular …