Phase transitions of associative biomacromolecules

RV Pappu, SR Cohen, F Dar, M Farag, M Kar - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Multivalent proteins and nucleic acids, collectively referred to as multivalent associative
biomacromolecules, provide the driving forces for the formation and compositional …

[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 …

Intrinsically disordered proteins and their “mysterious”(meta) physics

VN Uversky - Frontiers in Physics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recognition of the natural abundance and functional importance of intrinsically disordered
proteins (IDPs), and protein hybrids that contain both intrinsically disordered protein regions …

Intrinsically disordered proteins: an overview

R Trivedi, HA Nagarajaram - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many proteins and protein segments cannot attain a single stable three-dimensional
structure under physiological conditions; instead, they adopt multiple interconverting …

Classification of intrinsically disordered regions and proteins

R Van Der Lee, M Buljan, B Lang, RJ Weatheritt… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, we have observed a massive increase in the amount of information
describing protein sequences from a variety of organisms. 1, 2 While this may reflect the …

NMR spectroscopy captures the essential role of dynamics in regulating biomolecular function

TR Alderson, LE Kay - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Biomolecules are in constant motion. To understand how they function, and why
malfunctions can cause disease, it is necessary to describe their three-dimensional …

The contribution of intrinsically disordered regions to protein function, cellular complexity, and human disease

MM Babu - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2016 - portlandpress.com
In the 1960s, Christian Anfinsen postulated that the unique three-dimensional structure of a
protein is determined by its amino acid sequence. This work laid the foundation for the …

Intrinsically disordered proteins and intrinsically disordered protein regions

CJ Oldfield, AK Dunker - Annual review of biochemistry, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and IDP regions fail to form a stable structure, yet
they exhibit biological activities. Their mobile flexibility and structural instability are encoded …

Introducing protein intrinsic disorder

J Habchi, P Tompa, S Longhi, VN Uversky - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Proteins are the major component of the living cell. They play crucial roles in the
maintenance of life, and their dysfunctions are known to cause different pathologies. One of …

Mechanistic insights into mammalian stress granule dynamics

MD Panas, P Ivanov, P Anderson - Journal of Cell Biology, 2016 - rupress.org
The accumulation of stalled translation preinitiation complexes (PICs) mediates the
condensation of stress granules (SGs). Interactions between prion-related domains and …