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 …

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 …

Protein ensembles: how does nature harness thermodynamic fluctuations for life? The diverse functional roles of conformational ensembles in the cell

G Wei, W Xi, R Nussinov, B Ma - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
All soluble proteins populate conformational ensembles that together constitute the native
state. Their fluctuations in water are intrinsic thermodynamic phenomena, and the …

Unusual biophysics of intrinsically disordered proteins

VN Uversky - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Research of a past decade and a half leaves no doubt that complete understanding of
protein functionality requires close consideration of the fact that many functional proteins do …

Understanding protein non-folding

VN Uversky, AK Dunker - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins …, 2010 - Elsevier
This review describes the family of intrinsically disordered proteins, members of which fail to
form rigid 3-D structures under physiological conditions, either along their entire lengths or …

A decade and a half of protein intrinsic disorder: biology still waits for physics

VN Uversky - Protein Science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The abundant existence of proteins and regions that possess specific functions without
being uniquely folded into unique 3D structures has become accepted by a significant …

Attributes of short linear motifs

NE Davey, K Van Roey, RJ Weatheritt, G Toedt… - Molecular …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Traditionally, protein–protein interactions were thought to be mediated by large, structured
domains. However, it has become clear that the interactome comprises a wide range of …

ESpritz: accurate and fast prediction of protein disorder

I Walsh, AJM Martin, T Di Domenico… - Bioinformatics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Intrinsically disordered regions are key for the function of numerous proteins, and
the scant available experimental annotations suggest the existence of different disorder …

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 …

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Human Diseases: Introducing the D2 Concept

VN Uversky, CJ Oldfield, AK Dunker - Annu. Rev. Biophys., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) lack stable tertiary and/or secondary structures under
physiological conditions in vitro. They are highly abundant in nature and their functional …