The molecular basis for cellular function of intrinsically disordered protein regions

AS Holehouse, BB Kragelund - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Intrinsically disordered protein regions exist in a collection of dynamic interconverting
conformations that lack a stable 3D structure. These regions are structurally heterogeneous …

[HTML][HTML] AlphaFold and implications for intrinsically disordered proteins

KM Ruff, RV Pappu - Journal of molecular biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate predictions of the three-dimensional structures of proteins from their amino acid
sequences have come of age. AlphaFold, a deep learning-based approach to protein …

Metapredict: a fast, accurate, and easy-to-use predictor of consensus disorder and structure

RJ Emenecker, D Griffith, AS Holehouse - Biophysical journal, 2021 - cell.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins and protein regions make up a substantial fraction of many
proteomes in which they play a wide variety of essential roles. A critical first step in …

NMR illuminates intrinsic disorder

HJ Dyson, PE Wright - Current opinion in structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has long been instrumental in the characterization of
intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs). This …

The structure of pathogenic huntingtin exon 1 defines the bases of its aggregation propensity

CA Elena-Real, A Sagar, A Urbanek… - Nature structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG expansion in the
first exon of the HTT gene, resulting in an extended polyglutamine (poly-Q) tract in huntingtin …

Dilute phase oligomerization can oppose phase separation and modulate material properties of a ribonucleoprotein condensate

I Seim, AE Posey, WT Snead… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Ribonucleoprotein bodies are exemplars of membraneless biomolecular condensates that
can form via spontaneous or driven phase transitions. The fungal protein Whi3 forms …

Molecular strategies to target protein aggregation in Huntington's disease

OD Jarosińska, SGD Rüdiger - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by the aggregation of
the mutant huntingtin (mHTT) protein in nerve cells. mHTT self-aggregates to form soluble …

13C Direct Detected NMR for Challenging Systems

IC Felli, R Pierattelli - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Thanks to recent improvements in NMR spectrometer hardware and pulse sequence design,
modern 13C NMR has become a useful tool for biomolecular applications. The complete …

Role of conformational dynamics in pathogenic protein aggregation

X Sun, HJ Dyson, PE Wright - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2023 - Elsevier
The accumulation of pathogenic protein oligomers and aggregates is associated with
several devastating amyloid diseases. As protein aggregation is a multi-step nucleation …

Visualization and analysis of medically relevant tandem repeats in nanopore sequencing of control cohorts with pathSTR

W De Coster, I Höijer, I Bruggeman, S D'Hert… - Genome …, 2024 - genome.cshlp.org
The lack of population-scale databases hampers research and diagnostics for medically
relevant tandem repeats and repeat expansions. We attempt to fill this gap using our …