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 …

Physics-based computational and theoretical approaches to intrinsically disordered proteins

JE Shea, RB Best, J Mittal - Current opinion in structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Liquid-liquid phase separation underlies the formation of membraneless
organelles within cells.•Theory and molecular simulations help to relate interactions at the …

Molecular interactions contributing to FUS SYGQ LC-RGG phase separation and co-partitioning with RNA polymerase II heptads

AC Murthy, WS Tang, N Jovic, AM Janke… - Nature structural & …, 2021 - nature.com
The RNA-binding protein FUS (Fused in Sarcoma) mediates phase separation in
biomolecular condensates and functions in transcription by clustering with RNA polymerase …

Pragmatic coarse-graining of proteins: models and applications

L Borges-Araújo, I Patmanidis, AP Singh… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The molecular details involved in the folding, dynamics, organization, and interaction of
proteins with other molecules are often difficult to assess by experimental techniques …

Molecular details of protein condensates probed by microsecond long atomistic simulations

W Zheng, GL Dignon, N Jovic, X Xu… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The formation of membraneless organelles in cells commonly occurs via liquid–liquid phase
separation (LLPS) and is in many cases driven by multivalent interactions between …

Applications of molecular dynamics simulations in drug discovery

S AlRawashdeh, KH Barakat - Computational Drug Discovery and Design, 2023 - Springer
In the current drug development process, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have proven
to be very useful. This chapter provides an overview of the current applications of MD …

Conformational ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins and flexible multidomain proteins

FE Thomasen, K Lindorff-Larsen - Biochemical Society …, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and multidomain proteins with flexible linkers show a
high level of structural heterogeneity and are best described by ensembles consisting of …

SOURSOP: A Python package for the analysis of simulations of intrinsically disordered proteins

JM Lalmansingh, AT Keeley, KM Ruff… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conformational heterogeneity is a defining hallmark of intrinsically disordered proteins and
protein regions (IDRs). The functions of IDRs and the emergent cellular phenotypes they …

A complex network of interdomain interactions underlies the conformational ensemble of monomeric TDP‐43 and modulates its phase behavior

P Mohanty, A Rizuan, YC Kim, NL Fawzi… - Protein …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract TAR DNA‐binding protein 43 (TDP‐43) is a multidomain protein involved in the
regulation of RNA metabolism, and its aggregates have been observed in …

[HTML][HTML] On the potential of machine learning to examine the relationship between sequence, structure, dynamics and function of intrinsically disordered proteins

K Lindorff-Larsen, BB Kragelund - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) constitute a broad set of proteins with few uniting and
many diverging properties. IDPs—and intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) interspersed …