Protein moonlighting: what is it, and why is it important?

CJ Jeffery - … transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Members of the GroEL/HSP60 protein family have been studied for many years because of
their critical roles as ATP-dependent molecular chaperones, so it might come as a surprise …

[HTML][HTML] New intracellular activities of matrix metalloproteinases shine in the moonlight

PG Jobin, GS Butler, CM Overall - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2017 - Elsevier
Adaption of a single protein to perform multiple independent functions facilitates functional
plasticity of the proteome allowing a limited number of protein-coding genes to perform a …

hu. MAP 2.0: integration of over 15,000 proteomic experiments builds a global compendium of human multiprotein assemblies

K Drew, JB Wallingford, EM Marcotte - Molecular systems biology, 2021 - embopress.org
A general principle of biology is the self‐assembly of proteins into functional complexes.
Characterizing their composition is, therefore, required for our understanding of cellular …

Moonlighting enzymes: when cellular context defines specificity

MN Gupta, VN Uversky - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2023 - Springer
It is not often realized that the absolute protein specificity is an exception rather than a rule.
Two major kinds of protein multi-specificities are promiscuity and moonlighting. This review …

Keeping the proportions of protein complex components in check

JC Taggart, H Zauber, M Selbach, GW Li, E McShane - Cell systems, 2020 - cell.com
How do cells maintain relative proportions of protein complex components? Advances in
quantitative, genome-wide measurements have begun to shed light onto the roles of protein …

Moonlighting proteins: the case of the hexokinases

C Rodríguez-Saavedra… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Moonlighting proteins are defined as proteins with two or more functions that are unrelated
and independent to each other, so that inactivation of one of them should not affect the …

Enzymes in the cholesterol synthesis pathway: interactomics in the cancer context

P Ershov, L Kaluzhskiy, Y Mezentsev, E Yablokov… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
A global protein interactome ensures the maintenance of regulatory, signaling and structural
processes in cells, but at the same time, aberrations in the repertoire of protein–protein …

MoonProt 2.0: an expansion and update of the moonlighting proteins database

C Chen, S Zabad, H Liu, W Wang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract MoonProt 2.0 (http://moonlightingproteins. org) is an updated, comprehensive and
open-access database storing expert-curated annotations for moonlighting proteins …

MoonProt 3.0: an update of the moonlighting proteins database

C Chen, H Liu, S Zabad, N Rivera, E Rowin… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract MoonProt 3.0 (http://moonlightingproteins. org) is an updated open-access
database storing expert-curated annotations for moonlighting proteins. Moonlighting …

Why study moonlighting proteins?

CJ Jeffery - Frontiers in genetics, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Moonlighting proteins comprise a class of multifunctional proteins in which a single protein
performs multiple physiologically relevant biochemical or biophysical functions that are not …