Tau post-translational modifications: dynamic transformers of tau function, degradation, and aggregation

C Alquezar, S Arya, AW Kao - Frontiers in neurology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) on tau have long been recognized as affecting
protein function and contributing to neurodegeneration. The explosion of information on …

In-cell structural biology by NMR: the benefits of the atomic scale

FX Theillet - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
In-cell structural biology aims at extracting structural information about proteins or nucleic
acids in their native, cellular environment. This emerging field holds great promise and is …

Deciphering protein post-translational modifications using chemical biology tools

AC Conibear - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Proteins carry out a wide variety of catalytic, regulatory, signalling and structural functions in
living systems. Following their assembly on ribosomes and throughout their lifetimes, most …

Mechanistic view of hnRNPA2 low-complexity domain structure, interactions, and phase separation altered by mutation and arginine methylation

VH Ryan, GL Dignon, GH Zerze, CV Chabata, R Silva… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Summary hnRNPA2, a component of RNA-processing membraneless organelles, forms
inclusions when mutated in a syndrome characterized by the degeneration of neurons …

Modulation of intrinsically disordered protein function by post-translational modifications

A Bah, JD Forman-Kay - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2016 - ASBMB
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) produce significant changes in the structural
properties of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) by affecting their energy landscapes …

Folding of an intrinsically disordered protein by phosphorylation as a regulatory switch

A Bah, RM Vernon, Z Siddiqui, M Krzeminski… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins play important roles in cell signalling, transcription,
translation and cell cycle regulation,. Although they lack stable tertiary structure, many …

Physicochemical properties of cells and their effects on intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs)

FX Theillet, A Binolfi, T Frembgen-Kesner… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
It has long been axiomatic that a protein's structure determines its function. Intrinsically
disordered proteins (IDPs) and disordered protein regions (IDRs) defy this structure …

Highly disordered histone H1− DNA model complexes and their condensates

AL Turner, M Watson, OG Wilkins… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Disordered proteins play an essential role in a wide variety of biological processes, and are
often posttranslationally modified. One such protein is histone H1; its highly disordered C …

Identification of the Tau phosphorylation pattern that drives its aggregation

C Despres, C Byrne, H Qi… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Determining the functional relationship between Tau phosphorylation and aggregation has
proven a challenge owing to the multiple potential phosphorylation sites and their clustering …

An inherent difference between serine and threonine phosphorylation: phosphothreonine strongly prefers a highly ordered, compact, cyclic conformation

AK Pandey, HK Ganguly, SK Sinha… - ACS Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of proteins by kinases and phosphatases are
central to cellular responses and function. The structural effects of serine and threonine …